Revd Frederic Myers (20 September 1811,

Blackheath, London Blackheath is an area in Southeast London, straddling the border of the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Lewisham. It is located northeast of Lewisham, south of Greenwich, London, Greenwich and southeast of Charing Cross, ...

– 20 July 1851, Clifton, Cumberland) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He was the son of

Thomas Myers Thomas Myers (13 February 1774 – 21 April 1834) was an English mathematician and geographer. Early life Myers was born 13 February 1774, in Hovingham village, North Yorkshire, England.(summary only, login required for full content) Career ...

(1774–1834), mathematician and geographer, and his wife, Anna Maria, née Hale. Myers was educated at

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from 1829 to 1833 where he won the Hulsean prize and was elected a Fellow. In 1835 he became curate of

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and in 1838

perpetual curate Perpetual curate was a class of resident parish priest or incumbent curate within the United Church of England and Ireland (name of the combined Anglican churches of England and Ireland from 1800 to 1871). The term is found in common use mainly du ...

and first incumbent of the newly built St John's, Keswick, Cumbria. He founded St. John's school in 1840 and in 1849 Keswick's first public library with the proceeds of a legacy from his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Marshall. The school served for a Sunday School as well as an infant school during the week. He married Fanny Lucas in 1839 and after her death in 1840 he married Susan Harriet Marshall (1811–1896), daughter of the wealthy industrialist John Marshall (1765–1845). The couple's children included poet, classicist, philologist, and psychic researcher

Frederic W. H. Myers Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843 – 17 January 1901) was a British poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" ...

(1843–1901), poet Ernest Myers (1844–1921) and Dr Arthur Thomas Myers (1851–1894).

Works

* ''Six lectures on great men, delivered at the monthly parochial meetings in S. John's School Room Keswick 1842 - 1848.'' 1848 * ''Catholic thoughts on the Bible and theology.'' 1848 * ''Catholic thoughts on the Church of Christ and the Church of England.'' 1874

References

* *Richmond, Joan M (2015). Nine Letters from an Artist The Families of William Gillard, Porphyrogenitus, Amazon {{DEFAULTSORT:Myers, Frederic 1811 births 1851 deaths Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge 19th-century English Anglican priests People from Blackheath, London People from Keswick, Cumbria