LE GRICE

Charles Valentine (eld. child of Charles Le Grice, R. of St. James, Bury St. Edmunds, d. 1792). b. Bury St. Edmunds 14 Feb. 1773; ed. at Christ’s hospital 1781–92; friend of S. T. Cole ridge and Charles Lamb; admitted sizar of Trin. coll. Camb. 16 June 1792, scholar 17 April 1795, B.A. 1796, M.A. 1805; tutor to Wm. John Go dolphin Nicholls of Trereife near Penzance 1796; P.C. of St. Mary’s church, Penzance 31 July 1806 to June 1831; contributed articles to the Gentleman’s Mag. during more than 60 years, including College reminiscences of Cole ridge reprinted in C. Carlyon’s Early Years 1843; author of The Tineum, containing est i a no my or the art of stirring a fire 1794; Analysis of Paley’s Principles of moral and political philosophy 1795, 8 ed. 1822; Daphnis and Chloe, a pastoral novel 1803; The petition of an old uninhabited house in Penzance to its master in town 1811, 3 ed. 1858, and a number of pamphlets. d. Trereife near Penzance 24 Dec. 1858. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i 311–14, iii 1266–7, 1432; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 485–7; G.M. i 322–4 (1859); Letters of Charles Lamb, edited by A. Ainge , i 2–6 (1888).