Sir John Cullum, 6th Baronet (21 June 1733 – 9 October 1785) was an English clergyman and antiquary.

Life

The eldest son of

Sir John Cullum, 5th Baronet ''Sir'' is a formal honorific address in English for men, derived from Sire in the High Middle Ages. Both are derived from the old French "" (Lord), brought to England by the French-speaking Normans, and which now exist in French only as part o ...

Hawstead Hawstead is a small village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. It is located south of Bury St. Edmunds between the B1066 and A134 roads, in a fork formed by the River Lark and a small tributary. The ...

and

Hardwick, Suffolk Hardwick is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Bury St Edmunds, in the West Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England. In 1971 the parish had a population of 4. History The name "Hardwick" means 'Herd farm'. Hardwick was an ...

, by Susanna, daughter and coheiress of Sir Thomas Gery, he was born at Hawstead 21 June 1733 and baptised in the chapel at Hawstead Place on 19 July. He was educated at

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. He went to

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and in January 1756 was fourth junior optime in the

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. His classics, however, were stronger and in 1758 he obtained the member's prize for the best dissertation in Latin prose. He was elected Fellow of his college and was only just defeated in an election for the mastership. In April 1762, he was presented by his father to the rectory of Hawstead and in December 1774, he was instituted to the vicarage of Great Thurlow, also Suffolk. In the same year, he succeeded his father as the sixth baronet. Cullum was a scholar, antiquary and student of natural science. In March 1774 he was elected a

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians and archaeologists in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1707, received its royal charter in 1751 and is a Charitable organization, registered charity. It is based ...

and in March 1775 a

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. Cullum died of

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on 9 October 1785 and was buried at Hawstead.

Works

Cullum's diaries and correspondence survived at Hardwick House in Bury St. Edmunds, and elsewhere. Among his circle were the Duchess of Portland,

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who began his ''Sepulchral Monuments'' at Cullum's prompting, Michael Lort,

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Thomas Pennant Thomas Pennant (16 December 1798) was a Welsh natural history, naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales. As a naturalist he had ...

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, George Ashby, Michael Tyson,

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, and William Cole. Cullum devoted time to the preparation of ''The History and Antiquities of Hawsted and Hardwick in the County of Suffolk'', published in No. xxiii. (1784) of ''Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica'', and subsequently in separate form. He made collections for a ''History of Suffolk'', and projected a new ''Flora Anglicana'', but neither were published.

Family

Cullum married at

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, Essex, 11 July 1765, Peggy, only daughter of Daniel Bisson distiller of

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, who died in August 1810.

References

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Cullum, John 1733 births 1785 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests Baronets in the Baronetage of England Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge English antiquarians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Fellows of the Royal Society People from Hawstead