William Romaine

ROMAINE, William.  b. Hartlepool, County Durham, 25 September 1714; d. London, 26 July 1795. The son of a Huguenot refugee, he was educated at Houghton-le-Spring Grammar School and Hart Hall, Oxford, followed by Christ Church (BA 1734, MA 1737). He took Holy Orders (deacon 1736, priest 1738), serving curacies simultaneously at Banstead, Surrey and Horton, Middlesex. He was chaplain to the Lord Mayor of London in 1741, and a ‘Lecturer’ at St Botolph’s, Billingsgate in 1748 and at St Dunstan’s in the West, Fleet Street, in 1749. In 1766, through the influence of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon*, he became incumbent of St Anne, Blackfriars with St Andrew by the Wardrobe, where he...