Henry Loring

Henry Lloyd Loring[1] (c.1784–1822) was an English churchman. He was the first[2] Archdeacon of Calcutta,[3] serving from 1814[4] until his death on 4 September 1822.[5]

The son of Joshua Loring of Englefield, Berkshire, he was the grandson of Joshua Loring the naval officer.[4][6] He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1806,[7] and becoming a Fellow a year later.[8]

Family

His grandfather Joshua Loring was an 18th-century colonial American naval officer in British service (and a great great great great grandson of immigrant Thomas Loring.[6] His brother John Wentworth Loring, was a Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century[9] known for his service in the Napoleonic Wars as a frigate commander;[10] while his nephew William Loring was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station.[11]

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References
  1. National Archives
  2. 'Deaths Miss Frances Louisa Loring, only daughter of Henry Lloyd Loring, first Archdeacon of Calcutta': The Times (London, England), Friday, Mar 04, 1910; pg. 1; Issue 39211
  3. thePeerage.com
  4. "Alumni Oxonienses the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; their parentage, birthplace and year of birth, with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the University of Oxford": Foster,J (Ed) Vol 3 p873: Oxford, Parker, 1888
  5. Deaths The Times (London, England), Saturday, Apr 26, 1823; pg. 3; Issue 11856
  6. Charles Henry Pope, Loring Genealogy, (1917), p.46
  7. OXFORD, JUNE 7 Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, June 7, 1806; Issue 2771.
  8. OXFORD, AUGUST 1 Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, August 1, 1807; Issue 2831
  9. J. K. Laughton, ‘Loring, Sir John Wentworth (1775–1852)’, rev. Andrew Lambert, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 29 Nov 2015
  10. O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Loring, John Wentworth" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
  11. Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0


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