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Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Samuel Johnson p.28

Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Samuel Johnson p.28

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Gilbert REPINGTON

1712 - 26th Dec 1749

Life History

1712

Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire

29th Jan 1712

Baptised in Cathedral, Lichfield, Staffordshire

7th Dec 1734

Educated Matriculated at Christ's Church College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

1740

Educated BA

Jan 1740

Educated Peckwater Quadrangle, Christ's Church College, Oxford, Oxfordshire

1742

Educated MA

29th May 1743

Religion Ordained as Deacon

25th Sep 1743

Religion Ordained as Priest

26th Dec 1749

Died in Badby, Northamptonshire

Other facts

 

Misc in Freinds with Doctor Samuel Johnson at Oxford University

 

Religious name in Vicar of Badby

Notes

  • England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
    Name: Gilbert Reppington
    Gender: Male
    Baptism/Christening Date: 29 Jan 1712
    Baptism/Christening Place: CATHEDRAL,LICHFIELD,STAFFORD,ENGLAND
    Father's Name: Gilbert Reppington
    Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C06089-1
    System Origin: England-ODM
    Source Film Number: 0973143 IT 2, 421565, 435794
    Reference Number:
  • Clergy of the Church of England Database: Bishops Index
    Vacancy Evidence Record
    CCEd Record ID: 48855
    Evidence
    Cleric Detail
    Surname Reppington
    Forename Gilbert
    Event Type Reason Death
    Date 26/12/1749
    Office/Status Vicar
    Location Badby
    Source NthRO, PDR Institution book 9 (ML732) (Institution Book)
    Ordinary / Jurisdiction Thomas, John/Peterborough 1747-1757
  • Ordination Record
    CCEd Record ID: 23809
    Surname Reppington
    Forename Gilbert
    Qualification MA
    University Oxford
    College Christ Church
    Event Type ordination
    Date 29/5/1743
    Place Buckden, Hunts
    Church Prebendal Church
    Clerical Status deacon
    Letters Dimissory No
    Other Information Source LA Reg. XXXVIII (Act Book)
    Bishop Reynolds, Richard/Lincoln 1723-1744
    [A deacon is the lowest of three orders (deacon, priest, bishop)]
  • Ordination Record
    CCEd Record ID: 23886
    Surname Repington
    Forename Gilbert
    Qualification MA
    University Oxford
    College Christ Church
    Event Type ordination
    Date 25/9/1743
    Place Buckden, Hunts
    Church Prebendal Church
    Clerical Status priest
    Letters Dimissory No
    Other Information Source LA Reg. XXXVIII (Act Book)
    Bishop Reynolds, Richard/Lincoln 1723-1744
  • "Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
    [Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
    Born at Lichfield, September 18th, 1709
    Died in London, December 13th, 1784
    Buried at Westminster Abbey, December 20th, 1784]
    __________________________________________
    ... he was in Staffordshire January 1740 ...
    'The third letter was written by Dr. Johnson to
    "Mr. Gilbert Repington in Peckwater, Christchurch,
    Oxford, By London," who, with his brother Mt. John
    Repington of Exeter College, seemed to have been
    the younger sons of Mr. Gilbert Repington, of
    Amington, Tamworth.'
    [Christchurch, Peckwater Quadrangle is a grade I listed building in Oxford]
  • Mr. Gilbert Repington, Peckwater, Christ Church, Oxford
    Gilbert Repington, whom this letter shows to have been one of Johnson's schoolfellows, had matriculated from Christ Church on 7 December 1734, aged 21 : he did not take his B.A. till 1740 and his M.A. till 1742. His brother, John Repington, had matriculated from Exeter College on 12 July 1729, aged 18, so may have known Johnson at Oxford. Perhaps John it was who had met Johnson in the country, and, hearing of his wish to recover his books from Oxford, had promised that his brother there would attend to them. It will be noticed that Johnson undertakes to pay all the expenses of carriage, etc., to Gilbert's brother, who must therefore have been easily accessible. The family
    place of the Repingtons was at Tamworth, only a few miles from Lichfield, and was inherited by John's and Gilbert's eldest brother, who afterwards married a daughter of Johnson's good friend Theophilus Levett.*
    * See Johnsonian Gleanings, ante, III., 128 ; and IV., 190-1. I find from Gent.'s Mag., 1737, P.701, that the marriage took place on 3 Nov. 1737 :—" Edward Repington, Esq., of Litchfield, to Miss Levett, Daughter of the Town- Clerk."

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