HUMBERSTQN, a parish in the wapentake of
BRADLEY-HAVERSTOE, parts of LINDSEY, county of
LINCOLN, 4 miles (S. E.) from Great Grimsby, containing
217 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Lincoln,
rated in the king's books at £5. 18. 4., endowed with
£1000 royal bounty, and £200 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of Lord Carrington. The. church,
dedicated to St. Peter, was rebuilt, except the tower,
in the early part of the last century, at the expense of
£1000, the bequest of Matthew Humberston, Esq., who
died in 1709, and being interred here, a splendid monu-
ment was erected to his memory. He is said to have
been a foundling from Homerton, in the parish of
Hackney, who having been educated at Christ's Hospital,
obtained a situation in the Custom-house, and acquiring
a large fortune, purchased the manor of Humberston,
from which he took his name. He also left £1100, to
build and endow a school and almshouses here, which
sum remained unappropriated till 1821, when the
school-house and six almshouses were completed, and
q. residence for the vicar, to whose stipend Mr. Humberston
made an addition. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. A Benedictine monastery was
founded here in the reign of Henry II., the revenue
of which, at the dissolution, was £42. 11. 3.