Alfred Inigo Suckling (1796–1856), surname originally Fox, was an English clergyman, an author and historian of
Suffolk
Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...
.
Life
Born on 31 January 1796 in
Norwich
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, he was the only son of Alexander Fox, by his wife Anna Maria (née Suckling, d.1848), daughter of Robert Suckling of
Woodton
Woodton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated some 7 km north-west of the Suffolk town of Bungay, and 20 km south-east of Norwich.
The civil parish has an area of and in the 2001 census had a populatio ...
in
Norfolk
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, by his wife, Susannah Webb, a descendant of
Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones (; 15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was the first significant architect in England and Wales in the early modern period, and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
As the most notable archit ...
. Robert Suckling, his maternal grandfather, was of an old Norfolk family, which counted among its members the poet
Sir John Suckling and
Horatio Nelson
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy. His inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics brought abo ...
's uncle,
Maurice William Suckling. On the death of Robert's son, Maurice, without issue on 1 December 1820, Alfred Inigo took the surname and arms of Suckling and succeeded to the estates.
He was educated at
Pembroke College, Cambridge
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, where he matriculated in May 1814 and graduated LL.B. in 1824. He was ordained at Norwich on 15 October 1820. On 10 July 1839 he was instituted on his own petition to the rectory of
Barsham in Suffolk, which he held until his death.
He devoted most of his life to topographical depictions of Suffolk and Essex, his most notable work being the monumental 'History and Antiquities of Suffolk'.
He died at 40 Belmont Road,
St. Helier,
Jersey
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, on 3 May 1856 and is buried in Jersey.
Works
*''Memorials of the County of Essex'', London, 1845; originally printed in ‘Quarterly Papers on Architecture,’ 1845, vol. iii., edited by
John Weale.
*''The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk'', London, 1846–8, incomplete.
*His ''Antique and Armorial Collections'', 1821–39, 16 vols. consisting of notices of architectural and monumental antiquities in England and Picardy, form Additional MSS. 18476–91 (British Museum).
*He also edited ''Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling, with a Life of the Author'', London, 1836.
Family
On 31 January 1816 he married Lucy Clementina, eldest daughter of Samuel Clarke, by whom he had four sons—Robert Alfred, Maurice Shelton, Charles Richard, and Henry Edward—and six daughters.
Footnote references
General references
* - but note that the birthplace of his father-in-law is incorrectly cited there.
*Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students ..., Volume 2, by John Venn, p. 79.
*Notes and queries, 8th Series, Vol 12, Jul-Dec 1897. https://archive.org/stream/s8notesqueries12londuoft/s8notesqueries12londuoft_djvu.txt
;Attribution
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1796 births
1856 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
English antiquarians