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- He had some fame as a poet, as did two of his children, Gerald Moultrie (1829-1885) and Mary Moultrie.
Moultrie, John.
Adm. pens.
(age 19) at TRINITY, Apr. 25, 1819.
[Eldest] s. of the Rev. George (1797), R. of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire (and Harriet Fendall). B. Dec. 30, 1799, in London.
School, Eton.
Matric. Michs. 1819; Bell Scholar, 1820; Scholar, 1822; B.A. 1823; M.A. 1826.
Tutor to the sons of Lord Craven.
Adm. at the Middle Temple, Jan. 24, 1822.
Ord. deacon (Lincoln) 1825; priest (Ely) 1825.
R. of Rugby, 1825-74.
Hon. Canon of Worcester Cathedral, 1864.
A friend and contemporary of Dr Arnold, Head Master of Rugby.
Author of My brother's grave and other Poems; Dream of Life; Lays of the English Church; Memoir and Poetical Remains of W. S. Walker; Sermons (preached at Rugby); Altars, Hearths, and Graves, etc.
Married, July 28, 1825, Harriet Margaret Fergusson, and had issue.
Died Dec. 26, 1874; buried in the parish church.
'Good John Moultrie, 50 years Rector of Rugby' is commemorated by the Moultrie aisle, and by a mural tablet which records that he died 'of illness caught in visiting the sick of his parish.' There is also a Moultrie Road in Rugby.
(E. A. B. Barnard; Inns of Court; Crockford; D.N.B.)
Rev. Gerald Moultrie, 1829-1885. Poet and son of John Moultrie (1799-1874), Rector of Rugby, Warwickshire. He was born and brought up in the town, attending Rugby School before going on to Exeter College, Oxford. He became as Assistant Master at Shrewsbury School, then Vicar of Southleigh and Warden of St. James College, Southleigh. He was very close to his sister Mary Dunlop Moultrie (1837-1866) with whom he collaborated and whom he sorely missed after her early death at the age of twenty-nine. His life of high-church spirituality is reflected in his work which, although more technically accomplished than that of his father, lacks his freshness and simple sincerity.
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1799 - 1874 (74 years)
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