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Thomas Coombe was born on October 21, 1747, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Thomas Coombe, health officer of the port of Philadelphia, and his wife, Sarah, née Rutter.
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Thomas Coombe was born on October 21, 1747, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Thomas Coombe, health officer of the port of Philadelphia, and his wife, Sarah, née Rutter.
Coombe was educated at the College of Philadelphia, receiving the bachelor’s degree in 1766 and master’s degree in 1768. While still in college, he evinced some measure of literary ability by assisting, with others of his fellow pupils, in translating some of the Latin poems of his master, John Beveridge, which appeared in the latter’s Epistolce Familiares (1765). Two years after graduation, Coombe went to England, and one year later, in 1769, was ordained in the Church of England by the Bishop of London.
In 1771 Coombe was appointed chaplain to the Marquis of Rockingham, but he left England in 1772 to return to America. In Philadelphia, serving as assistant minister to the congregations of Christ Church and St. Peter’s, he soon distinguished himself as a preacher. His sermon delivered on July 20, 1775 a general fast-day appointed by the Continental Congress, in which he advocated the cause of the Colonies, aroused much attention and received wide circulation in several editions.
Coombe’s ordination oath did not permit him conscientiously to go the whole length of the Declaration of Independence, and his deportation to Staunton, Virginia, was decreed in 1777, together with that of other Tories. Coombe, however, pleaded ill health, and the order, in his case, was not enforced. In 1778 he was granted permission to go to New York, and in the following year sailed for England where he passed the remainder of his life.
After a period of service as chaplain to the Earl of Carlisle, Coombe was appointed chaplain in ordinary to the King and, in 1800, became prebendary of Canterbury. Eight years later, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury appointed him rector to the united London parishes of St. Michael’s Queenhithe and Trinity the Less. In these livings he gave respected service for fourteen years, until his death.
Coompver soon distinguished himself as a preacher. His sermon delivered on July 20, 1775 a general fast-day appointed by the Continental Congress, in which he advocated the cause of the Colonies, aroused much attention and received wide circulation in several editions.
On April 14, 1771, during his first sojourn in England, Coombe preached at St. Stephen’s, Walbrook, for the benefit of the children belonging to the St. Ethelberg Society, a sermon which was published in London in 1772. After his return to America, his first publication, The Harmony between the Old and New Testaments Respecting the Messiah (Philadelphia, 1774), was a consolidation of two sermons preached before the united congregations of Christ Church and St. Peter’s on Christmas Day, 1773, and “on the Sunday when the collection was made for the relief of the poor of those congregations. ” One other discourse was published in London in 1790, the Influence of Christianity on the Condition of the World, delivered at Trinity Chapel, Conduit St. , London, on December 13, 1789.
Coombe’s claim to the title of poet is based primarily on The Peasant of Auburn; or, the Emigrant (London, 1783). The poem is in content and form an imitation of the Deserted Village of Goldsmith, to whom it was dedicated, and was designed to recount the unhappy fortunes of the emigrant from “sweet Auburn” when, later, on the banks of the Ohio, his bright hopes darkened to desolation, war, and death. The volume included also a number of shorter poems. He no doubt impressed his contemporaries more as an Englishman than as an American; and more as clergyman of character and ability than as a poet.
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Coomber was a member of the Anglican Church.
Coombe was a strong supporter of the abolition of the slave trade.
Coomber had two sons, Reverend John Riché Coombe and Reverend Thomas Coombe, Jr.