Edward Hamley (1764 (baptised) – 1834) was an English clergyman and poet.
Life
He was the elder son of the Rev. Thomas Hamley of
St. Columb,
Cornwall, who was buried at
Bodmin
Bodmin () is a town and civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated south-west of Bodmin Moor.
The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character. It is bordere ...
11 June 1766, and was baptised at St. Columb Major 25 Oct. 1764. He matriculated from
New College, Oxford
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at th ...
, 6 November 1783, and took his
Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1791. He was elected a fellow of his college 5 November 1785, and then spent some time in Italy.
While residing in the
Inner Temple,
London, in 1795, he published a volume entitled ''Poems of Various Kinds,'' 1795. At this period he was in correspondence with Dr.
Samuel Parr, by whom he was called "the learned Mr. Hamley of New College".
In 1795 he also printed anonymously ''Translations, chiefly from the Italian of Petrarch and Metastasio.'' In the same year he wrote seventeen
sonnet
A sonnet is a poetic form that originated in the poetry composed at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the Sicilian city of Palermo. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's invention, ...
s, which were afterwards inserted in the ''Poetical Register and Repository of Fugitive Poetry,'' at intervals between 1805 and 1809. He became rector of
Cusop,
Herefordshire, in 1805, and of
Stanton St. John
Stanton St. John is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about northeast of the centre of Oxford. The village is above sea level on the eastern brow of a group of hills northeast of Oxford, in a slight saddle between two of the hills.
A ...
,
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily ...
, in 1806, which benefices he held to his death.
He died at Stanton 7 December 1834.
References
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1764 births
1834 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
19th-century English poets
Alumni of New College, Oxford
People from St Columb Major
Poets from Cornwall