Gilbert REPINGTON

1712 - 26th Dec 1749

Life History

1712	Born in Lichfield, Staffordshire
29th Jan 1712	Baptised in Cathedral, Lichfield, Staffordshire
7th Dec 1734	Educated Matriculated at Christ's Church College, Oxford, Oxfordshire
1740	Educated BA
Jan 1740	Educated Peckwater Quadrangle, Christ's Church College, Oxford, Oxfordshire
1742	Educated MA
29th May 1743	Religion Ordained as Deacon
25th Sep 1743	Religion Ordained as Priest
26th Dec 1749	Died in Badby, Northamptonshire

Other facts

	Misc in Freinds with Doctor Samuel Johnson at Oxford University
	Religious name in Vicar of Badby

Notes

England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Gilbert Reppington
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 29 Jan 1712
Baptism/Christening Place: CATHEDRAL,LICHFIELD,STAFFORD,ENGLAND
Father's Name: Gilbert Reppington
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C06089-1
System Origin: England-ODM
Source Film Number: 0973143 IT 2, 421565, 435794
Reference Number:
Clergy of the Church of England Database: Bishops Index
Vacancy Evidence Record
CCEd Record ID: 48855
Evidence
Cleric Detail
Surname Reppington
Forename Gilbert
Event Type Reason Death
Date 26/12/1749
Office/Status Vicar
Location Badby
Source NthRO, PDR Institution book 9 (ML732) (Institution Book)
Ordinary / Jurisdiction Thomas, John/Peterborough 1747-1757
Ordination Record
CCEd Record ID: 23809
Surname Reppington
Forename Gilbert
Qualification MA
University Oxford
College Christ Church
Event Type ordination
Date 29/5/1743
Place Buckden, Hunts
Church Prebendal Church
Clerical Status deacon
Letters Dimissory No
Other Information Source LA Reg. XXXVIII (Act Book)
Bishop Reynolds, Richard/Lincoln 1723-1744
[A deacon is the lowest of three orders (deacon, priest, bishop)]
Ordination Record
CCEd Record ID: 23886
Surname Repington
Forename Gilbert
Qualification MA
University Oxford
College Christ Church
Event Type ordination
Date 25/9/1743
Place Buckden, Hunts
Church Prebendal Church
Clerical Status priest
Letters Dimissory No
Other Information Source LA Reg. XXXVIII (Act Book)
Bishop Reynolds, Richard/Lincoln 1723-1744
"Bi-Centenary of the Birth of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
[Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.
Born at Lichfield, September 18th, 1709
Died in London, December 13th, 1784
Buried at Westminster Abbey, December 20th, 1784]
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... he was in Staffordshire January 1740 ...
'The third letter was written by Dr. Johnson to
"Mr. Gilbert Repington in Peckwater, Christchurch,
Oxford, By London," who, with his brother Mt. John
Repington of Exeter College, seemed to have been
the younger sons of Mr. Gilbert Repington, of
Amington, Tamworth.'
[Christchurch, Peckwater Quadrangle is a grade I listed building in Oxford]
Mr. Gilbert Repington, Peckwater, Christ Church, Oxford
Gilbert Repington, whom this letter shows to have been one of Johnson's schoolfellows, had matriculated from Christ Church on 7 December 1734, aged 21 : he did not take his B.A. till 1740 and his M.A. till 1742. His brother, John Repington, had matriculated from Exeter College on 12 July 1729, aged 18, so may have known Johnson at Oxford. Perhaps John it was who had met Johnson in the country, and, hearing of his wish to recover his books from Oxford, had promised that his brother there would attend to them. It will be noticed that Johnson undertakes to pay all the expenses of carriage, etc., to Gilbert's brother, who must therefore have been easily accessible. The family
place of the Repingtons was at Tamworth, only a few miles from Lichfield, and was inherited by John's and Gilbert's eldest brother, who afterwards married a daughter of Johnson's good friend Theophilus Levett.*
* See Johnsonian Gleanings, ante, III., 128 ; and IV., 190-1. I find from Gent.'s Mag., 1737, P.701, that the marriage took place on 3 Nov. 1737 :" Edward Repington, Esq., of Litchfield, to Miss Levett, Daughter of the Town- Clerk."