John Dupre

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John Dupre




John Dupre (1752-1834) was headmaster of
Berkhamsted Grammar School

Family

The eldest son of Jean Dupre, Rector of St. Helier, and Marie Millais, and brother of Dean Edouard Dupre and Michel Dupre, he was born in St Clement, where his father was then Rector, in May 1752.

He obtained a grant from the Don Baudains, and matriculated from Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1769. He was a Jersey Fellow of Exeter in 1772. He resigned his fellowship on his marriage in 1783 to Eleanor Bayley of Tring. He became Headmaster of the grammar school at Tring in Hertfordshire; and in 1788 he was appointed Headmaster of Berkhamsted, one of the Edward VI grammar schools.

He used his annual visits to Jersey to collect pupils for his school. The Gazette announced in 1789 his arrival in the island "with Masters Le Couteur, Marett, Nicolle, Le Feuvre, Janvrin, and the two sons of Hemery, his pupils".

In 1794 he published some samples of his boys' work in Musae Berkhamstedienses or Poetical Prolusions in the English and Latin languages by some young gentlemen of Berkhamsted School. A second edition was printed in 1799.

Livings

Though his schools absorbed almost all his time, he accumulated livings in the way that was then a common church scandal. He was Vicar of Mentmore, Buckinghamshirefrom 1784 to 1834, Rector of Bow Brickhill, Buckinghamshire 1795—1825, and Rector of Toynton, Lincolnshire. He was also Almoner to the Earl of Marchmont.

He published Sermons on Various Subjects (2 vols) 1782—87; and Discourses from the Pulpit, 1815, dedicated to the Rector, Tutors, and Fellows of Exeter College "in remembrance of the many happy years passed in this learned Society".

He died in Wyke Cottage, near Weymouth, on 12 December 1834. He had one son, Thomas who succeeded him as Master of Berkhamsted, and three daughters, Mary Ann, Margaret, and Maria Purvis.

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Descendants of Pierre du Pre

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