2 Quotes & Sayings By John Suckling
John Suckling was born in 1786, at Longstanton, Suffolk, England, and died at Saffron Walden, Essex, on August 3, 1847. His father was a clergyman who had inherited a large fortune. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge. Suckling then went to London to enter into legal practice. He married the daughter of John Dwight of the famous American family that owned the New York "Dwight" house in 1716
From this marriage descended many wealthy American families including the DOWNEs and the DOWNEs of Boston. After practicing law for some years, he moved to New York City in 1814 where he continued to practice law until his death in 1847. Suckling's career as a lawyer was marked by many achievements besides his several cases involving slavery. He also became involved in politics and he served as an original member of the New York Chamber of Commerce, which later became known as the New York Stock Exchange.
John Suckling was one of the founders of New York University's medical department. Throughout his life he helped many charitable causes, including founding the first private insane asylum for men in New York City and donating money to found Trinity College in Hartford where his nephew Charles Dwight was president. It is said that after Dwight died Suckling spoke at his funeral tribute saying: "My heart is filled with sorrow for him; I never saw such a man; I never knew such a man." He soon began to speak about God and life after death and how we should all look forward to eternal life with our Creator.
Before his death Suckling had started on what became one of his best known books: The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets Unveiled Through Symbolism; Or A Companion To The Great Masonic Pyramid Of Washington (1848). The book quickly became a bestseller and has since been translated into over 40 languages and reprinted over 100 times since first published (and even reprinted again in 2014). The book is considered by many people as one of the world's most important works of archeology and early religions along with Charles Darwin's "Origin Of Species" published more than 50 years later.
John Suckling was not only an author but also famous for his nature poems which were later collected together by his son John Inglesant Suckling under the title: Poems Original And Selected (1866).