Samuel Ogden (priest)

[2][3][4] Ogden gave early support to the poet William Whitehead; who may later have written verse for him.

[2][3][4] Ogden was perpetual curate of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge from 1753, and preached there for about 18 years to crowded congregations, consisting mostly of members of the university.

against John Green before the Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the university, who in 1754 conferred on him the vicarage of Damerham in Wiltshire.

[2][4] From that year until 1778 Ogden held the college living of Lawford in Essex, with the rectory of Stansfield in Suffolk.

[2] In an attack of paralysis, Ogden died, on 22 March 1778, and was buried on the south side of the communion table at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

John Mainwaring in his Remarks on Pursuits of Literature dwells on his "portly figure, dignified air, broad visage, dark complexion, arched eyebrows and piercing eyes, the solemn, emphatic, commanding utterance".

William Paley speaks of the strangeness of his delivery, "a most solemn, drawling, whining tone; he seemed to think he was always in the pulpit".

[7][2] Ogden was the favourite preacher of George III of Great Britain; and his son Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover recommended his sermons as models for brevity and terseness.

That on the accession of George III contained three sets by him, Latin, English, and Arabic; which produced a caustic epigram from Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley.