Rev. Jonathan Boucher FRSE, FSA (12 March 1738 – 27 April 1804) was an English clergyman, teacher, preacher and philologist. Jonathan Boucher was born in Blencogo, near Wigton, Cumberland, and educated at the Wigton Grammar School. [1] .

Mar 8, 2025 · Jonathan Boucher (born March 12, 1738, Cumberland [now Cumbria], England—died April 27, 1804, Epsom, Surrey) was an English clergyman who won fame as a loyalist in America. In 1759 Boucher went to Virginia as a private tutor.

Anglican minister Jonathan Boucher, one of the most prominent Loyalists in the South, was born in Cumberland, England in 1738. He came to live in the Chesapeake region as a young man, …

Jun 1, 2002 · Jonathan Boucher (1738–1804) left England in 1759 to become a tutor to the children of a Virginia planter, and after his ordination in 1762, he became rector of Hanover Parish in the colony.

Nov 7, 2013 · The intellectual biography of Boucher is the account of a thoroughly Americanized cleric, planter, and would-be patriot caught up in a bewildering collapse of civil and religious authority in Maryland.

Jonathan Boucher (12 May 1738 – 27 April 1804) was an English clergyman, teacher and philologist. ==Early career== Boucher was born in Bilencogo, near Wigton, Cumberland, and educated at the Wigton grammar school.

In May 1775, the Reverend Jonathan Boucher, rowing across the Potomac, met George Washington rowing in the other direction on his way to the Continental Congress.

He was a successful teacher of the sons of wealthy families, including John Parke Custis, stepson of George Washington, and a far-sighted and efficient planter. Boucher also became known as the most articulate Loyalist in the South.

Jonathan Boucher (1738-1804) was a significant figure in the Anglican church and political landscape during the late eighteenth century. Born in England, Boucher became a Loyalist clergyman in North America, advocating against independence and …

THE reputation of Jonathan Boucher, colonial cleric and Maryland loy- alist as a high Tory and reactionary political theorist who derived his ideas almost entirely from the seventeenth-century royalist, Robert Filmer, has long received virtually unquestioned acceptance.