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Rev Charles Myers was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and author of an "Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus" which was for a long time a text book in the university. He took his BA degree in 1823 when he was a fifth wrangler, the year in which Professor Airy, the Astronomer Royal, was senior wrangler.
MA 1826. Fellow 1825-29
He was appointed in 1829(-1870) to the college living of Flintham, near Newark, worth £350 a year and in 1832(-1870) succeeded his father's cousin (John Myers d 1831) as Rector of the first mediety of Ruskington worth £300 a year and also inherited the Dunningwell estate.
From the Ecclesiastical Census of 1851 the Rev Charles Myers has described the Church at Flintham;
An ancient parish Church (partly rebuilt about 1828 at the expense of the late T.B.T. Hildyard Esq) dedicated to St Augustine.
The space available for public worship was about 90 free sittings and 220 other sittings, not including a few movable forms occupied by the Sibthorpe school boys.
The remaining questions on attendance and endowments he declined to answer "because I consider these impertinent, at any rate, in the original sense of the word; and because I know not to what use the required information might be put by an unscrupulous ministry."
After Rev Charles Myers' death, the Vicarage, household furniture, livestock and other effects were sold by auction on 13 and 14 April 1871.
From the sale catalogue;
The contents of the back kitchen, larder, pantry, No 1 attic bedroom, No 2 attic bedroom, morning room (about 13ft x 15ft), dining-room, china-closet, entrance hall, study, Mrs Myers' room, nursery, store room, wash-house, yard.
The contents of the best kitchen, female servants' room, small bed and dressing room, staircase and landing, No 1 bedroom, No 2 bedroom and dressing room, drawing room (21ft 6in x 15ft 3in), No 3 bedroom, carriage house, saddle room, garden, cow hovel, and out offices.
Beasts; roan cow in milk, red heifer in milk, roan heifer 2½ years old, roan steer, bull calf, heifer calf, in calved cow, 3-year old heifers, two 2½ year old heifers.
Carriages; four-wheeled carriage with moveable head, basket carriage, four wheeled ditto.
Horses; Brown carriage horse, bay mare pony, also a pony nine years old and a quantity of manure.
The patron of the living for Flintham was the Hildyards of Flintham Hall.
The Myers Family History -Charles Myers, Vicar of Flintham
Cathy Clarke, Whangarei, New Zealand.
email; mel.clarke@clear.net.nz
Last updated 27 Sep 2004