Thursday 4 June 2020

Reverend Edward Repton MA Vicar of Shoreham

Reverend Edward Repton was the son of Humphry and Mary Repton (Clarke) and was baptized 25 June 1782 at Norwich Norfolk. He married Mary Ellis Herbert at Loughton Essex on 27 November 1808 and died on 6 August 1860 at Saint Leonards on Sea Sussex age 78.
He graduated from Magdalen College Oxford with a B.A. in 1804 and with a M.A. in 1806.
He was Rector at Maningsby Lincolnshire in 1817,curate at Saint Philip Chapel Regent Street Westminster in 1820 and was Prebendary Canon of Westminster in 1838 and Chaplain to the House of Commons. In 1843 he became Vicar of Shoreham upon the death of  Reverend Robert Price BA.
Shoreham Church has a war memorial under a window of the Choir vestry recorded and illustrated at war memorials online. His three sons are the subject of the Repton memorial and died in the British East India Company Campaigns 1757-1858 .
Edward is buried at Shoreham together with his wife Mary Ellis Repton who died 13 March 1875 Georgiana Ewart Repton who died 8 May 1848 and Edward Pakenham Repton who died aged 34; the memorial crosses within an enclosure are recorded by Leland Duncan in his survey of Shoreham prior to 1919 see Kent Archeological Society.
My transcript of two volumes of Shoreham burial registers are now online at the Shoreham Parish page of Kent Online Parish Clerks Shoreham Parish.

© Henry Mantell Downe and Farnborough Online Parish Clerk 2013-2020

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