Richard Massie

MASSIE, Richard. b. Chester, 18 June 1800; d. Pulford, Cheshire, 11 March 1887. He was the eldest son of an ancient and wealthy family (‘Massie of Coddington’ in Burke’s Landed Gentry). His father, Richard Massie (1771-1854), a Cheshire vicar, had twenty-two children, of whom eighteen survived into adulthood. Richard, the father, was a graduate of St John’s College, Cambridge, but there is no record of Richard, the son, matriculating at either Cambridge or Oxford (although some of his brothers did). After serving as curate of Coddington (1799-1810) and holding several Cheshire livings, Richard, the father, became rector of Eccleston in 1832; Richard, the son, lived at Pulford Hall, near...