George Bitton Jermyn
George Bitton Jermyn (1789–1857) was an English cleric and antiquarian, known for his topographical and genealogical studies of Suffolk. Early life He was born on 2 November 1789, the eldest son of Peter Jermyn the younger (1767–1797), a solicitor, of Halesworth, Suffolk, and his wife Sarah, daughter of George Bitton of Uggeshall; Henry Jermyn (1767–1820) the collaborator of David Elisha Davy was his uncle. He was educated at Ipswich grammar school, and at Norwich grammar school under Samuel Forster (1752–1843). Jermyn matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. During 1811 and 1812 he travelled in continental Europe, making heraldic researches in a tour of the Southern Mediterranean. He returned to Cambridge in 1813, and moved to college to Trinity Hall; he graduated LL.B. on 14 July 1814, and LL.D. July 1826. Ordained deacon in 1813 and priest in 1817, Jermyn became curate of Hawkedon, Suffolk, in 1813. In 1814 he became curate at Stradishall. In May 1817 he moved to the curacy of Littleport in the Isle of Ely. He became curate of Swaffham Prior, outside Cambridge in July 1820, where George Leonard Jenyns was vicar. Curate and naturalist The household took in undergraduate lodgers to make ends meet. One