Rev. John Kirby

Awarded  the compensation with others (including his brother Rev. Heney Kirby) as assignees of an annuity of £230 per annum for the life of John Vernon, secured by demise of slaves for 100 years, arrears £3517 10s 0d.

1. Son of Rev. John Kirby. Vicar of Mayfield 1811-1831. Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, June 17, 1805. Of Sussex. S. of the Rev. John (above), V. of Mayfield, Sussex. Scholar, 1805; matric. Lent, 1806; B.A. 1810; M.A. 1813. Ord. deacon (Salisbury, Litt. dim. from Chichester) June 17, 1810; priest (Canterbury) Sept. 23, 1810. V. of Mayfield, Sussex, 1810-44. Married, Jan. 2, 1816, Louisa, dau. of Thomas Murdock, of Portland Place. Died Oct. 27, 1844, aged 58. Brother of Henry (1813); father of Henry T. M. (1838) and Reginald R. (1848). (Cant. Act Bk.; Scott, MSS.; G. Mag., 1844, II. 662 and 1816, I. 82.)

T71/877 Antigua no. 324.

1. Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni 1261-1900 [database online].