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Description: | Application for assistance by Revd Peter Grand's Charity at Dirham, Gloucestershire.
Petitioner: Revd Woodcock Simpson, aged 35, living at Greatford, Lincolnshire, and officiating for the past 8 years as curate to Dr Orme, vicar of Barholm.
Grounds of application: 5 children of 12 years and under and wife advanced in her pregnancy.
Educational qualifications: educated for the church from infancy at St Bees Grammar School, Cumberland. Lack of money and his father's failure in business prevented a university career.
Signed: Woodcock Simpson.
Signing in testimony of his good character: J Mossop, vicar of Baston; White Bates, vicar of Tallington.
A completed printed form addressed on the back to: The Reverend the Trustees of the late Reverend Peter Grand, Post Office, Bristol. | Subjects: | Church Of England Parishes Religion & Beliefs | Temporal: | 12 Sep 1795 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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