April 1761: Entered the Royal Navy (at an advanced age). Served as a purser/pay master aboard H.M.S. Druid until November 1765.
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1767 - March 1771: Entered the Royal Navy. Assigned to H.M.S. Glasgow.
07/08 September 1776: Died while enroute to St Pierre, Martinique: Pomona was lost with all hands during a fiercely violent storm.
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‘Sacred to the memory of John Periam of Wootton House and late member of Exeter College Oxford to which his ancestors were considerable benefactors also a student of the Middle Temple who died Dec 29 1788 aged 74 Piety, Affection and Virtue/ armed with a highly cultivated mind/ adorned the Character of this excellent Christian. ‘The sweet remembrance of thy duty/ shall flourish when he sleeps unduly.
Source: Butleigh Church Memorial Inscription - http://butleigh.org/ChurchMemorials.html
VENN Adm. sizar at ST JOHN'S, June 30, 1814. Of Lincs. [S. of Grigg and Maria. B. at Brasted, Kent, Oct. 14, 1795. School, Eton.] ' Matric. Michs. 1814; Scholar 1817; B.A. 1818; M.A. 1821. Adm. a member of Trinity, Nov. 22, 1833. Ord. deacon (Gloucester, for London) July 9, 1820; priest (Chester, for London) Oct. 5, 1820. V. of Butleigh with Baltonsborough, Somerset, 1828-39. F.R.S., 1819. Married, Dec. 7, 1837, Elizabeth Perriam, dau. of Alexander Hood, Capt. R.N. Assisted E. D. Clarke in his experiments in isolating cadmium from zinc, 1822. On Clarke's death in 1820, the Heads nominated Henslow and him for the Professorship of Mineralogy. Died Aug. 4, 1839 (Life and Remains of E. D. Clarke, 659; Sedgwick, Life, I. 237; Winstanley, Early Victorian Cambridge, 37; G. Mag., 1839, II. 325; Eton School Lists; Sir Wasey Sterry.)
Treasurer: Butleigh with the Chapelry of Balthonsborough annex
The British General James Woolfe who died in the Battle of Quebec in 1759 was born in the vicarage in Westerham, Kent and later moved to Spiers House in the same village which is now owned by The National Trust. General Woolfe was baptized by the Rev. George Lewis. Source: Derek Wenham
Died unmarried.