Reverend George Ainslie
(1804-1871)
26 July 1861

Volume 4, page 282, sitting number 5200.

According to the Clergy List of 1866, Reverend George Ainslie was Secretary to the Incorporated Church Building Society at 7 Whitehall, London.

According to Alumni Cantabrigienses, he was admitted to Emmanuel College on 9 March 1821 and was the son of Sir Robert Sharpe, Bart., of Park Street, Mayfair. He graduated BA in 1825 and MA in 1829. He was ordained a Deacon in London in 1828 and became a priest in 1829. His first living was the rectory of South Willingham in Lincolnshire, which he held from 1830 to 1837. He was also Curate of St Peter’s, Walworth, in Surrey, in 1829 and again from 1838 to 1848. He held the incumbency of St Philip’s in Clerkenwell until his resignation in 1854. Three years later he was appointed Secretary of the Church Building Society, a position he held for eighteen years until his death.

Reverend George Ainslie died unmarried on 14 May 1875, aged 71.