Robert Hoadley Ashe (1751–1826) was an English

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Life

Ashe was born about 1751, the son of a

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of Winchester, educated at

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, compounded for

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1793, and B.D. and D.D. 1794. From 1775 to 1826 he held the living of

Crewkerne Crewkerne ( ) is a town and electoral ward in south Somerset, England, southwest of Yeovil and east of Chard. The civil parish of West Crewkerne includes the hamlets of Coombe, Woolminstone and Henley, and borders the county of Dorset to the s ...

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. He took the name of Hoadley upon inheriting a property from his aunt, who had married a son of Bishop Hoadley. He died on 3 May 1826.

Works

Ashe edited in 1787 a volume of poetical translations by "Master John Browne of Crewkerne, a boy of twelve years old". In 1799 he published a letter to

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, author of the history of Winchester, vindicating Bishop Hoadley from Milner's "false and illiberal aspersions". Several letters of his are printed in Nichols's 'Illustrations'.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ashe, Robert Hoadley 1751 births 1826 deaths 18th-century English people 19th-century English people Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford