Educated at Westminster (where he was a friend of Robert Southey) and Christ Church, Oxford, he was perpetual curate of Barrington, Somerset (1810-48).

REFERENCES TO Edward Combe:

Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 1 January 1800 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)

Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 16 March 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850)