Jonathan Eastwood (1823–1864) was an English clergyman and topographer.

Life

He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge, where, after obtaining both classical and mathematical honours, he took the two degrees in arts in 1846 and 1849 respectively. He entered holy orders in 1847, and was appointed curate of

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. He then exchanged his curacy for that of

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. He died at

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on 5 July 1864, aged 40, being at the time of his death incumbent of Hope, Staffordshire. He is buried in Hastings Cemetery, Plot AI K

An obituary giving a good summary of his life and his accomplishments can be found on the 'friends of Hastings Cemetary site. He married a daughter of William Frederick Dixon of Page Hall, Ecclesfield, and left children.

Works

He devoted his leisure to the study of local history and antiquity, and published the ''History of the Parish of Ecclesfield in the county of York'', London, 1862. To the '' Monthly Paper'', a periodical for the use of Sunday schools, he contributed a series of papers under the title of ‘Notes on Scriptural and Liturgical Words.’ The words were treated of alphabetically and did not advance beyond the letter ‘H,’ but Eastwood proposed to complete the alphabet in collaboration with

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of Cambridge and to issue the whole in volume form. He finished his share of the work, but did not live to see its publication, which was deferred to 1866, when it appeared as the ‘Bible Word-book: a Glossary of Old English Bible Words.’ A second edition, revised throughout and greatly enlarged by Wright, was issued in 1881 without Eastwood's name. Eastwood was also a contributor to the English dictionary projected by the

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References

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Eastwood, Jonathan 1824 births 1864 deaths English topographers Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests English male writers