Chronology of His
Life |
Year
|
Date
|
Event |
|
1793
|
18
Jan.
|
Born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. |
|
1801
|
?
|
Started School at Princes Risborough (not far from High Wycombe) |
|
1806
|
July
|
Entered the Merchant Taylors' School in London |
|
1812/3
|
?
|
Started at St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
|
1816
|
?
|
Receives his BA from St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
|
1816
|
?
|
Was ordained |
|
1816
|
2
May
|
Married Jane Head |
|
1817
|
?
|
His daughter, Jane Miriam was born |
|
1819
|
?
|
Receives his MA from St Edmund Hall, Oxford |
|
1820
|
June
|
Became a curate at Coaley, Gloucestershire and lecturer of Dursley. |
|
1820
|
22
July
|
His son, Henry East, was born |
|
1821
|
?
|
His daughter, Maria Vernon Graham was born |
|
1822
|
25
June
|
Became a curate at Astley, Worcestershire |
|
1823
|
?
|
His daughter, Ellen Prestage, was born |
|
1826
|
?
|
Visited Cornwall and Yorkshire representing the Church Missionary Society. |
|
1829
|
13
Nov.
|
Became rector of Astley |
|
1829
|
14
June
|
Was thrown out of a carriage and was disabled for some years |
|
1829
|
27
Aug.
|
His youngest son, Francis Tebbs, was born |
|
1836
|
14
Dec.
|
His youngest daughter, Frances Ridley, was born |
|
1837
|
?
|
Won the Gresham Prize Medal for an 'Evening Service in A,' Op. 37 |
|
1845
|
?
|
Became rector of St Nicholas, Worcester |
|
1848
|
?
|
5 July His wife, Jane died |
|
1851
|
29
July
|
Marries Caroline Ann Cooke |
|
1860
|
?
|
Following declining health, retired to the vicarage of Shareshill, Staffordshire |
|
1867
|
?
|
Increasing illnesses forced him to give up parish work, and moved to Leamington, Warwickshire |
|
1870
|
19
April
|
Died in Leamington, Warwickshire. |
|
1870
|
23
April
|
Buried at Astley |
