Henry Lloyd Loring[1] (c.1784–1822) was an English churchman. He was the first[2] Archdeacon of Calcutta,[3] serving from 1814[4] until his death on 4 September 1822.[5]

The son of Joshua Loring of Englefield, Berkshire, he was the grandson of Joshua Loring the naval officer.[4][6] He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1806,[7] and becoming a Fellow a year later.[8]

Family

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.[6] His brother John Wentworth Loring, was a Royal Navy officer of the early nineteenth century[9] known for his service in the Napoleonic Wars as a frigate commander;[10] while his nephew William Loring was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Australia Station.[11]

References

  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. ↑ thePeerage.com
  4. 1 2 "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
  5. ↑ Deaths The Times (London, England), Saturday, Apr 26, 1823; pg. 3; Issue 11856
  6. 1 2 Charles Henry Pope, Loring Genealogy, (1917), p.46
  7. ↑ OXFORD, JUNE 7 Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, June 7, 1806; Issue 2771.
  8. ↑ OXFORD, AUGUST 1 Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, August 1, 1807; Issue 2831
  9. ↑ 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
  10. ↑ O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Loring, John Wentworth" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
  11. ↑ Bastock, John (1988), Ships on the Australia Station, Child & Associates Publishing Pty Ltd; Frenchs Forest, Australia. ISBN 0-86777-348-0


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