Modern English biography

MONK, JAMES HENRY (only son of Charles Monk of 40th foot). _b._ Buntingford, Herts. 1784; ed. at Norwich and the Charterhouse; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1800, scholar 1801, fellow 1 Oct. 1805 to 1822, assistant tutor Oct. 1807, tutor to 1822; 7th wrangler 1804; B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1822; regius professor of Greek, Jany. 1809 to June 1823; Whitehall preacher 1812; dean of Peterborough 7 March 1822 to June 1830; R. of Fiskerton, Lincs. 12 July 1822 to 1832; R. of Peakirk-cum-Glinton, Northamptonshire 27 March 1829 to 1850; canon of Westminster 19 June 1830 to death; bishop of Gloucester 11 June 1830, consecrated at Lambeth 11 July, the see was amalgamated with that of Bristol 5 Oct. 1836; edited The Hippolytus of Euripides 1811, 4 ed. 1840; Alcestis Euripidis 1816, 4 ed. 1837 and other books; Museum Criticum, or Cambridge classical researches 8 numbers 1813–14; edited with C. J. Blomfield, R. Porsoni Adversaria 1812; author of The life of Richard Bentley 1830, 2 ed. 1833. _d._ the palace, Stapleton near Bristol 6 June 1856. _bur._ in north aisle of Westminster abbey 14 June. _G.M. i_ 115–7 (1856); _Jerdan’s National portrait gallery_ (1833) _vol. iv_, _portrait_ 21; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait gallery_, _iii_ 76–9 (1846); _E. M. Roose’s Ecclesiastica_ (1842) 398–400. MONK, JOHN. Solicitor at Manchester; barrister M.T. 22 Nov. 1839, bencher 1857 to death; Q.C. June 1857; deputy recorder of Manchester. _d._ 8 Harley st. Cavendish sq. London 29 Jany.