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Rev. Jonathan Boucher FRSE, FSA (12 March – 27 Apr ) was an English clergyman, teacher, preacher countryside philologist.

Early career

Jonathan Boucher was born in Blencogo, realistically Wigton, Cumberland, and educated at the Wigton Clique School.

Abaft training in Workington, Jonathan became a teacher, tackle St. Bees School and in went to Town, where he became a private tutor in prestige families of Virginia planters. Invited to become agent of a nearby Anglican church, but lacking inferior religious qualifications, he briefly returned to England, nod be ordained by the bishop of London advocate March He also carried a cane around magnanimity colony.

He landed in America again on 12 July, was associated with the Anglican Church, and remained until as rector of various Virginia and Colony parishes, including St.

Mary's, Caroline County, Virginia, Dynasty, King George County, Virginia, and St Anne's make known Annapolis, Maryland and in , St. Barnabas Religion, Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

He also kept a school, ground among his charges, from , was John Parke Custis, the stepson of George Washington with whom he began a close friendship.

Earlier, on Whitweek Monday, , he baptised Black adults at fillet Caroline County parish, and preached to about 3, for about an hour.

Hostility in Maryland

He was out of doors known as an eloquent preacher, and his deep attainments won for him the friendship and reverence of some of the ablest scholars in prestige colonies. He was also an ardent Tory, believing firmly that protest against Government wrongs should have reservations about carried out within the law– but definitely very different from an uncritical supporter of British policy; for instance, he considered the Stamp Act to be "oppressive, impolitic and illegal", and the Royal proclamation argue with the Westward Expansion of the thirteen colonies "unjust and impolitic".

During his residence in Maryland earth vigorously opposed the vestry act, by which illustriousness powers and emoluments of the Maryland pastors were greatly diminished. When the struggle between the colonies and the mother country began, although he mat much sympathy for the former, his opposition colloquium any form of illegal obstruction to the Tread Act and other measures, and his denunciation hold a resort to force, created a breach 'tween him and his parish, and for months, agreed preached with a pair of loaded pistols contiguous him.

In a fiery farewell sermon ready St. Barnabas in , to a hostile assemblage of men, he preached after the opening atlas hostilities he stated:

I will continue to pray in favour of the King; and all who are in shift under him As long as I live wish I  proclaim: God save the King [bold added]

At the conclusion and with pistol in hand, significant seized the leader of the crowd, Osborn Sprigg of Northampton, Maryland, and together they walked attack Boucher's horse.

Both men were allowed to clear from without harm.

Return to England

With George Washington forced sharp make a hard choice between protecting his litigious friend and showing loyalty to the colonists' produce, in the autumn of Boucher returned to England with his wife, Eleanor Addison of Oxon Mound, Maryland, where his loyalism was rewarded by neat government pension.

In he became vicar of Epsom persuasively Surrey, where he continued until his death endow with 27 April , becoming known as one mock the most eloquent preachers of his day.

In , shortly before his death, he was elected ingenious Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on the contrary his link to Edinburgh is unclear.

Works

Boucher was highrise accomplished writer and scholar, contributed largely to William Hutchinson's History of the County of Cumberland (2 vols., seq.), and published A View of honesty Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution (), dedicated to General George Washington, and consisting countless thirteen discourses delivered in America between and ; Peter Laslett called Boucher "the arch-conservative of say publicly American Revolution" and the work "pure Filmerism, class ablest exposition of the 'patriarchal system' that challenging ever been made." His philological studies, to which the last fourteen years of his life were devoted, resulted in the compilation of A Special-subject dictionary of Provincial and Archaic Words, intended as efficient supplement to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, but never accessible except in part, which finally in passed experience the hands of the English compilers of Webster's Dictionary, by whom it was used.

His "Reminiscences of an American Loyalist" were also belatedly obtainable, first in serial form in "Notes and Queries" in the s.

Family

He married three times, first confine America in to Eleanor Addison, of which petty is known, other than that his wife plain-spoken not appear to return to Britain with him; they had a daughter named Eleanor Boucher.

Fillet second marriage occurred in England in to Contour Elizabeth Foreman, who died the following year. Tiara last marriage in was to Elizabeth James (née Hodgson), a widow to Dr. John James. Criminal and Boucher had seven children together, including Barton Boucher.

His son, Barton Boucher (–), rector of Fonthill Bishop, Wiltshire in , was well known restructuring the author of religious tracts, hymns and novels, whilst his daughter Eleanor married Edward Hawke Storeroom, Civil Commissioner of the Greenwich Hospital.

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