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Henry Loring

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

The son of Joshua Loring of Englefield, Berkshire, he was the grandson of Joshua Loring the naval officer.[3][5] He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1806,[6] and becoming a Fellow a year later.[7]

Family

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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.[5] His brother John Wentworth Loring, was a Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century[8] known for his service in the Napoleonic Wars as a frigate commander;[9] while his nephew William Loring was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station.[10]

References

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  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. ^ a b "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
  4. ^ Deaths The Times (London, England), Saturday, Apr 26, 1823; pg. 3; Issue 11856
  5. ^ a b Charles Henry Pope, Loring Genealogy, (1917), p.46
  6. ^ OXFORD, JUNE 7 Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, June 7, 1806; Issue 2771.
  7. ^ OXFORD, AUGUST 1 Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, August 1, 1807; Issue 2831
  8. ^ 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
  9. ^ O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Loring, John Wentworth" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
  10. ^ Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0