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Patrick Brontë ( / ˈbrɒnti /, commonly /- teɪ /; [1] born Patrick Brunty; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish Anglican minister and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son.
He was born at Emdale on March 17, 1777, and apprenticed as a boy to a blacksmith then a linen weaver, but by 16 was master of the village school. At first self-educated, he was later helped by local clergymen Andrew Harshaw and Thomas Tighe. He entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1802, where he adopted the name Brontë (Greek for thunder).
Dec 22, 2016 · Patrick Brontë was born in County Down in 1777. He was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1806 and met and married middle class Maria Branwell six years later (“my saucy Pat” she calls him...
Patrick Brontë (17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861), the Brontë sisters' father, was born in Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland, of a family of farm workers of moderate means. [5] . His birth name was Patrick Prunty or Brunty.
May 21, 2017 · Patrick Brontë’s first foray into poetry was entitled ‘Cottage Poems’, and like much of his writing it centres upon the importance of faith and religion. Published in 1811, it contains a lengthy introduction by Patrick in which he explains that his poetry is intended for those who would not normally read verse:
Brontë, Patrick (1777–1861), Church of England clergyman and writer, was born 17 March 1777, in Emdale, Drumballyroney, Co. Down, the eldest of the ten children of Hugh Prunty , or Brunty, a protestant farm labourer, and Eleanor or Alice (née McClory), born a catholic.
Patrick Brontë. Patrick Brontë was born Patrick Brunty to a Protestant father and a Roman Catholic mother in 1777. The family was large, poor and viewed with some suspicion by their neighbours, who distrusted mixed marriages. Perhaps the only luxuries in the house were four books, two of which were Bibles.
