French, Thomas & Margery

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SWEDENBORGIANS:  Margery Georgina Grace French bapt New Jerusalem Chapel 24.3.1801.  Intellectual Repository for the New Church 1826 p.438 obituary (by S Noble) of Mrs Margery Georgiana Greece French, died 12.12.1826 at her lodgings in Lisson Green in her 78th year "widow of a clergyman of the Church of England, from whom she had been separated, for many years before his death, under circumstances of the most trying and painful nature".

Marjory dau of John Sangster & Isobel Milne bapt 22.8.1749 Montrose / Thomas French bach = St Pancras 4.10.1784 Marjory Sangster sp botp banns wits Dr Richardson, E W Charman / Margery French bur 15.12.1826 St Marylebone age 77 of Stafford St / will PCC of Rev Thomas French Doctor in Divinity dated 3.5.1805 Sheerness Fortress, left £20 to Mrs Margery French nee Sangster, some hundreds to Mrs Ann Price French, mother of his two children and dau of late George Rodewell Bennett of Jamaica, his son George born 19.5.1798 and his dau Sarah born 18.9.1800, "divine books from heaven by that highly illuminated Author Emanuel Swedenborg", execs Hungerford Spooner, Richard Ewsters, Richard Leatt wits Thos D Shireff, Jas Spooner, proved 26.9.1811 by Hungerford Spooner, 22.7.1819 (after Spooner's death) by Ewsters /  War Office 3.6.1806 surgeon Thomas French from half-pay of 32nd Light Dragoons to surgeon of a recruiting district / Rev Thomas French DD appointed chaplain to garrison of Sheerness (Jackson's Oxford Journal 12.11.1808) / War Office 2.6.1810 Thomas French DD late Garrison Surgeon Sheerness to be Chaplain to the forces / Sarah Elizabeth French = St Mary Abbots Kensington 9.4.1829 William Clarke Wimberley (see Memorials of Four old Families p. 23 mocavo.com). I have not been able to find where Thomas French graduated or got his doctorate, having checked Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow & St Andrews