Weyman Bouchery (1683–1712) was a Latin poet from the

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. Bouchery was the son of Arnold Bouchery, one of the ministers of the Walloon congregation at Canterbury. He was born in

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in 1683, and educated at

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and

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(B.A. 1702, M.A. 1706). He appears to have migrated to Emmanuel College in 1705. His migration is not recorded in the ''Cantabrigienses Graduati''. He became rector of

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in Suffolk in 1709, and died at

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on 24 March 1712. A mural tablet to his memory was erected in the church of St. George, Canterbury, by his son, Gilbert Bouchery, vicar of Swaffham, Norfolk. He published an elegant Latin poem, ''Hymnus Sacer: sive Paraphrasis in Deboræ et Baraci Canticum, Alcaico carmine expressa, e libri Judicum cap. v.'', Cambridge, typis academicis, 1706, 4to.

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1683 births 1712 deaths Clergy from Canterbury 18th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge 17th-century English poets {{poet-stub