▶Date of birth:   (baptised) 15 August 1866       Place of birth: Balham, Surrey

▶Father: William John Agg Large      Mother: Emma Humphris

▶Spouse(s):  Margaret Mayo James    Date(s) of marriage:  23 January 1891     Place(s) of marriage: St Paul’s, Kensington

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: John Agg Large was a clergyman who in time came to own his parents’ house in Pittville but apparently never lived there. He was born in Balham in Surrey (baptised 1866), the only son of the Revd. William John Agg Large, and his wife Emma (née Humphris). He matriculated at Queens’ College, Cambridge in 1885 as an Exhibitioner, BA 1888,  MA 1889.

Large was ordained Deacon (Exeter) in 1889, and Priest (Worcester) in 1890. In 1889 he was licensed Curate of St Mary Major, Exeter, and in 1890 moved as Curate to Christ Church, Great Malvern until 1894. He married Margaret Mayo, fifth daughter of the Revd. William Edward James, of Bath, and Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Leicester, in 1891; they had three sons and two daughters.

In 1894 he moved “to take up a more independent charge” as Curate-in-Charge at Southborough, Tunbridge Wells (the newspapers reported a death threat he received while there in 1902, “in connection with the Tonbridge murder”). In 1898 he had been appointed “to Aix-les-Bains”, presumably to minister to the summer residents.

Large remained at Southborough until he was appointed Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Sandown, Isle of Wight in 1906. He was registered as the owner of 3 Clarendon Villas, Pittville (now 10 Pittville Lawn) in 1913, where his parents had lived from 1893 until his mother’s death in 1903, after which the house was let out; he was not a resident of Pittville himself.

In 1916 he moved on to his final vicarage, at St Anne’s, Holloway, where he remained until his death. He died in a tragic accident, struck by an omnibus “when [he was] crossing Seven Sisters road” in London, at the age of fifty-one.

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▶Date of death:  13 November 1917      Place of death: London

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▶Notes:        ID: 19205

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden