Robert Carey Sumner

(1729-1771)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sumner, Robert Carey, 1729-1771 DNB: Sumner, Robert Carey (1729–1771), schoolmaster LBT ID: RoSumne1771 VIAF ID: 49103227 LOC ID: nr93038063	B/BAP: 1729-03-09 DIED: 1771-09-12
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Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he was assistant master at Eton (1751) and headmaster at Harrow (1760). Samuel Parr and Sir William Jones were among his pupils.
REFERENCES TO Robert Carey Sumner: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. II. 1752-1761 Found 3: ¶ 8 ¶ 16 ¶ n3 Ch. III. 1761-1765 Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 9 Ch. V. 1767-1771 Found 11: ¶ 2 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 9 ¶ 10 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 14 ¶ 16 ¶ n1 ¶ n2 Ch. VI. 1771 Found 5: ¶ 1 ¶ 6 ¶ 13 ¶ 16 ¶ n2 Appendix Verse 2: p. 462c p. 462c