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SYMMONS, CHARLES, younger son of John Symmons MP, Llanstinan, Pembrokeshire, and Maria, dau. of Charles Philipps, Sandyhaven, Pembrokeshire; b. 1749; adm. 14 Jan 1765; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 20 Nov 1765; Glasgow Univ. 1767; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. sizar 14 Feb 1776; BD 1786 (incorp. Oxford 24 Mar 1794); DD Oxford 26 Mar 1794; ordained 1775; Chaplain, 75th Foot 25 Jun 1778; Rector of Narberth with Robeson, Pembrokeshire, from 13 Aug 1778; Prebendary of St. David’s from 11 Oct 1789; aroused considerable hostility by a Whig sermon at St. Mary’s, Cambridge 1793 (Gunning, Reminiscences, 1855, i, 285-90); Rector of Lampeter Velfry, Pembrokeshire, from 2 Apr 1794; author poetical works, lives of Milton and Shakespeare, and The Aeneis of Virgil translated, 1817; m. 1779 Elizabeth, dau. of John Foley, Ridgeway, Pembrokeshire, and sister of Adm. Sir Thomas Foley GCB, Royal Navy; d. 27 Apr 1826. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.