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Este, Charles, 1753-1829
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1752-1828
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ESTE, CHARLES, son of Michael Este, St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster, apothecary, and Margaret, dau. of Charles Fabre, St. Paul’s, Covent Garden; nephew of Charles Este (QS 1711, qv); b. 18 May 1752; in school lists 1764-7, having been adm. at age 7, i. e. c. 1759; successively attracted by a career as an actor and a medical practitioner, but ultimately decided to become a clergyman; ordained deacon 27 Oct 1776, priest 21 Dec 1776 (both London); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 12 Dec 1776, but took his name off the books 12 Mar 1782; one of the King’s Reading Chaplains at Whitehall (occurs 1780-3); afternoon preacher at Percy Chapel; took to newspaper journalism, and for some time connected with the Morning Post; obtained a share in The World newspaper, but fell out with its proprietor Edward Topham, whom he violently attacked in The Oracle; author, My Own Life, 1787, in which he refers to his “standing for College” without a “tutor”, and also A Journey in 1793 through Flanders, Brabant, and Germany to Switzerland, 1795; m.; d. 1829 (but will proved PCC 11 Nov 1828 (sic)). [perhaps m. 4 Jul 1775 Cordelia, dau. of William Croft (IGI)]
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.