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George Owen Cambridge (1756–1841) was an English churchman, Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1808. ==Life== He was the youngest son of Richard Owen Cambridge and Mary Trenchard. He matriculated at The Queen's College, Oxford in 1774, and graduated B.A. there in 1778. He then became a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and graduated M.A. there in 1781.〔George Edward Cokayne, ''The club of "Nobody's Friends," since its foundation on 21 June 1800, to 1885'' Volum 1 (1920), p. 46; (archive.org. )〕 Cambridge was a supposed suitor of Frances Burney. Nothing came in the way of romance, though Sir William Weller Pepys, a friend of Burney, tried to throw the couple together. They had met through the Bluestockings; Burney's apparent interest in him was not returned. Cambridge was rector of Myland in Essex from 1791 to 1795.〔(''A history of Myland Church: Rectors of the Parish of Myland, Essex from the year 1351''. )〕 He was a chaplain to Charles Manners-Sutton, and prebendary of Ely Cathedral from 1795. He became a good friend of Joshua Watson, a figure of the Hackney Phalanx group of High Church men.〔Edward Churton, ''Memoir of Joshua Watson'' (1863), p. 42; (archive.org. )〕 Cambridge was Archdeacon of Middlesex from 1808 to 1840, when he resigned. He became proprietor of Montpelier Row chapel, in Twickenham (unconsecrated).〔(Twickenham Museum, ''Richard Owen Cambridge''. )〕 In 1814, when Watson, John Bowdler and James Alan Park saw the need for an urgent church building programme, they called on Cambridge and Charles Daubeny for action. He was Treasurer to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and the Clergy Orphan Schools.〔 He was involved also in King's College London and the National Society for Promoting Religious Education. Cambridge came into possession of his father's house, Twickenham Meadows, in 1823.〔(Twickenham Museum, ''Cambridge Park & Meadowbank''. )〕 The house had been renamed Cambridge House in 1802. Cambridge divided the estate in 1835.〔(londongardensonline.org.uk, ''Cambridge Gardens, Richmond''. )〕 He was an art collector: old masters and contemporary portraits. He presented a copy of a painting by Paolo Veronese, the ''Martyrdom of St George'', to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1835.〔(fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk, ''The Martyrdom of St George''. )〕〔Sidney Colvin, ''A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum'' (1902), pp. 34–5; (archive.org. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Cambridge (priest)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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