Jonathan boucher biography
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Jonathan Boucher: Moderate Loyalist and Public Man
Abstract
This inquiry began then, with an attempt to understand Jonathan Boucher, the Tory of Tories, the adversary of Locke and egalitarian principles, the spokesman for Filmer in America, and the divine rights advocate. The whole complex of Boucher's life has been examined, with particular emphasis on the pre-Revolutionary years of crisis in Virginia and Maryland between 1765 and 1775, tillsammans with the milieu of the two colonies, in order to discover what factors may have contributed to Boucher's High Tory role, if, indeed, he was a High Tory. And it has been an effort to understand all of the circumstances that caused Boucher to fail so dismally in halting the progress of rebellion. The intellectual biography of Boucher is the account of a thoroughly Americanized cleric, planter, and would-be patriot caught up in a bewildering collapse of civil and religious authority in Maryland. Torn bygd loyalty to Church and State of Engla
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Jonathan Boucher (1738-1804): Loyalist and High Churchman
Jonathan Boucher (1738-1804): Loyalist and High Churchman By Robert M Andrews J onathan Boucher was born on 12 March 1738 in Cumberland, England. Qualifying as a schoolteacher at sixteen years of age, Boucher taught for a few years in England before leaving for employment North America in 1759, becoming a teacher to a Virginian merchant. Desiring to become a Church of England clergyman, Boucher returned to England in January 1762 and was ordained by the Bishop of London a few months later. Returning to North America that year, Boucher began a decade-long process of intellectual and social advancement—which included not only becoming a Virginian slave-owning planter, but being a tutor to George Washington’s stepson, Jackie Custis. hus by the early 1770s, informed by a strong attachment to High Church Tory views, Boucher—in the words of histori- an Robert M. Calhoon—changed from “a marginal emigrant … into an incisive polemici
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Jonathan Boucher
English minister (1738–1804)
Rev. Jonathan BoucherFRSE, FSA (12 March 1738 – 27 April 1804) was an English clergyman, teacher, preacher and philologist.
Early career
[edit]Jonathan Boucher was born in Blencogo, near Wigton, Cumberland, and educated at the Wigton Grammar School. After training in Workington, Jonathan became a teacher, at St. Bees School and in 1759 went to Virginia, where he became a private tutor in the families of Virginia planters. Invited to become vicar of a nearby Anglican church, but lacking any religious qualifications, he briefly returned to England, to be ordained by the bishop of London in March 1762. He also carried a cane around the colony.[citation needed]
He landed in America again on 12 July, was associated with the Anglican Church, and remained until 1775 as rector of various Virginia and Maryland parishes, including St. Mary's, Caroline County, Virginia, Hanover, King George County, Virginia, and St Anne's