John Antes Latrobe (1799–1878) was an English cleric and writer on music.

Life

The son of

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and his wife Hannah Benigna Sims, he was born in London in 1799; Peter Latrobe (1795–1863) the minister and

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were brothers. He was named after his father's uncle

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. He received his education at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1826, M.A. 1829. He was ordained deacon in the Church of England by

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, in 1826, served as curate at Bristol Temple that year, and became chaplain to

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in 1829. As a curate, Latrobe served also at

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, and other places. He became incumbent of St. Thomas's Church,

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, a post which he held from 1840 to 1865. In 1858 he was made an honorary canon of

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. Latrobe died, unmarried, at

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, where he had been living in retirement, on 19 November 1878.

Works

Latrobe was the author of ''The Music of the Church considered in its various branches, Congregational and Choral'', London, 1831. It covers the Anglican church music tradition, as it was before

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. His other publications included: *''Instructions of Chenaniah: Plain Directions for accompanying the Chant or Psalm Tune'', London, 1832; *''Scripture Illustrations'', London, 1838; and *Two volumes of poetry, ''The Solace of Song'', 1837, and ''Sacred Lays and Lyrics'', 1850. He compiled the Hymn Book used in his church at Kendal, and several of his own hymns were included in it.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Latrobe, John Antes 1799 births 19th-century English Anglican priests English writers English hymnwriters 1878 deaths Latrobe family