Reverend John Rogers

Born at Wentnor in Shropshire on 16 June 1871, John Rogers was the son of Reverend John Rogers.

He was educated in Shrewsbury and at St John’s College, Cambridge (BA, 1840; MA, 1844). He was the Curate of Wentnor in Shropshire 1840-1850, the Vicar of Aymestrey and Perpetual Curate of Leinthall Earles, both in Herefordshire, from 1850 to 1865, and the Vicar of Stowe in Shropshire from 1865 until his death in 1878.

On 27 October 1851 at St George’s, Hanover Square, he married Charlotte Victoria Newbold, daughter of Rev. Francis Stonehewer Newbold.

The couple appear on the 1861 census living at Aymestrey in Herefordshire. Also present on the night of the census were their daughter Harriet, their three young sons and five servants. Reverend Rogers gave ‘Vicar of Aymestrey ‘as his profession.

Reverend Rogers died, aged 60, at Stanage Park in Herefordshire on 28 May 1878. He left an estate valued at £40,000.

His death was announced in the Illustrated London News on 8 June 1878: ‘The Rev. John Rogers, of Stanage Park, Radnorshire, and The Home, Wentnor, Salop, J.P. for the counties of Hereford, Radnor, and Salop, on the 28th ult., at Stanage Park, aged sixty. He was the son and heir of the late Rev. John Rogers, of Home, by Marianne, his wife, eldest daughter of John Bodenham, Esq., of Grove House, in the county of Radnor, and was married to Charlotte Victoria, daughter of the Rev. Francis Stonehewer Newbold, D.D.’

Photographed by Henry Peach Robinson of Leamington.