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GENEST, JOHN, second son of John Genest, Dunkeswell, Devon, and his second wife Elizabeth, widow of John Samuel Longuet, Honiton, Devon, and of --- Shepheard, Army officer, and dau. of --- Hare, Honiton, Devon; b.; adm. 15 Jun 1774; left Whitsun 1780; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 May 1780, aged 17, scholar 19 Apr 1782, matr. Mich. 1780; BA 1784; MA 1787; ordained; for many years a curate in Lincolnshire; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Ancaster; resided at Bath towards end of life; author, Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830, 1832; d. 15 Dec 1839. DNB.

GENEW, WILLIAM, son of John Van Genew, Westminster, originally of Venloo, Netherlands, and Elizabeth --- ; bapt. 30 Mar 1645; adm. ; Min. Can. 1660 (as William Vangenue); adm. Inner Temple 25 May 1661, called to bar 28 Nov 1669; Reader for Clifford’s Inn 1686; called to Bench, Inner Temple Nov 1687, but excused; discontinued use of Van as part of name about 1661; lic. to m. 22 Dec 1673 Mary, dau. of William Gladwin, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, citizen and girdler. [will William Genew, St. Paul, Covent Garden, gentleman, proved PCC 14 Feb 1704]

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