See also:JOHN See also:KYRLE (1637-1724)
, " the See also:Man of See also:Ross," See also:English philanthropist, was See also:born in the See also:parish of Dymock, See also:Gloucester-See also:shire, on the 22nd of May 1637
.
His See also:father was a See also:barrister and M.P., and the See also:family had lived at Ross, in See also:Herefordshire, for many generations
.
He was educated at Balliol See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and having succeeded to the See also:property at Ross took up his See also:abode there
.
In everything that concerned the welfare of the little See also:town in which he lived he took a lively See also:interest—in the See also:education of the See also:children, the See also:distribution of See also:alms, in improving and embellishing the town
.
He delighted in mediating between those who had quarrelled and in preventing lawsuits
.
He was generous to the poor and spent all he had in See also:good See also:works
.
He lived a See also:great See also:deal in the open See also:air working with the labourers on his See also:farm
.
He died on the 7th of See also:November 1724, and was buried in the See also:chancel of Ross See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church
.
His memory is pre-served by the See also:Kyrie Society, founded in 1877, to better the See also:lot of working See also:people, by laying out parks, encouraging See also:house decoration, window gardening and See also:flower growing
.
Ross was eulogized by See also:Pope in the third Moral See also:Epistle (1732), and by See also:Coleridge in an See also:early poem (1794)
.
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