Gerard Moultrie

MOULTRIE, Gerard. b. Rugby, Warwickshire, 16 September 1829; d. South Leigh, near Oxford, 25 April 1885. He was the son of a clergyman, John Moultrie (for whom see JJ, p. 772) and educated at Rugby School and Exeter College, Oxford (BA 1851, MA, 1856). He was a master at Shrewsbury School (1852-55) and took Holy Orders (deacon 1853, priest 1858), becoming chaplain to the Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry (1855-64), chaplain of the Donative [Benefice] of Barrow Gurney, Somerset (1864-69), and vicar of South Leigh, near Oxford, from 1869 until his death. He was the author of an edition of the Elizabethan Primer (1862) and other books including Hymns and Lyrics for the Seasons and Saints’...