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Deanery Of Bristol
The Dean of Bristol is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Bristol, England. The Dean is Mandy Ford, since her installation on 3 October 2020. List of deans Early modern *1542–1551 William Snow (previously last prior of Bradenstoke) *1551–1552 John Whiteheare *1552–1554 George Carew (deprived) *1554–1559 Henry Joliffe (deprived) *1559–1580 George Carew (restored) *1580–1590 John Sprint *1590–1598 Anthony Watson *1598–1617 Simon Robson *1617–1639 Edward Chetwynd *1639–1660 Matthew Nicholas (afterwards Dean of St Paul's, 1660) *1660–1667 Henry Glemham *1667–1683 Richard Towgood *1683–1684 Samuel Crossman *1684–1685 Richard Thompson *1685–1694 William Levett *1694–1708 George Royse *1708–1730 Robert Booth *1730–1739 Samuel Creswick (afterwards Dean of Wells) *1739–1757 Thomas Chamberlayne *1757–1760 William Warburton *1760–1761 Samuel Squire (afterwards Bishop of St David's, 1761) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol
Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in South West England. The wider Bristol Built-up Area is the eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon. Around the beginning of the 11th century, the settlement was known as (Old English: 'the place at the bridge'). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities, after London, in tax receipts. A major port, Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497, John Cabot, a Venetia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Towgood
Richard Towgood (c.1595–1683) was an English royalist churchman, Dean of Bristol from 1667. Life He was born near Bruton, Somerset, about 1595. The family name is spelled also Toogood, Twogood, and Towgard. He entered Oriel College, Oxford, as a servitor in 1610 and matriculated 19 April 1611, at the age of sixteen. He graduated B.A. 1 February 1615, M.A. 4 February 1618, and B.D. 7 November 1633. Having taken orders about 1615, he preached in the neighbourhood of Oxford, till he was appointed master of the grammar school in College Green, Bristol. In 1619 he was instituted vicar of All Saints', Bristol, and preferred in 1626 to the vicarage of St. Nicholas, Bristol. He was made a chaplain to Charles I about 1633. On 20 February 1645 he was sequestered from his vicarage for opposing the parliamentary government. He was several times imprisoned under severe conditions, was ordered to be shot, and then reprieved. Gaining his liberty, he retired to Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cutts Barton
Cutts Barton (1706–1780) D.D. was an English cleric, Dean of Bristol from 1763 to 1780. Life He was the son of Geoffrey Barton, vicar of Rushton, Northamptonshire. He attended Oundle School, and was admitted to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1724, aged 17. He graduated there B.A. in 1728, and was ordained deacon that year, and M.A. 1732; he was incorporated at Oxford in 1733. Barton became Rector of St Andrew Holborn in 1734. He was a pluralist, in 1745 taking on also the parish of Little Laver, Essex. He was appointed Clerk of the Closet in the household of Frederick, Prince of Wales, a position he held for life; after the Prince's death in 1751, he was chaplain to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, his widow. He was President of Sion College in 1754. In 1754 he preached a sermon for the Royal College of Physicians, London, and in 1758 one for the London Smallpox Hospital. Thomas Newton was appointed Bishop of Bristol in 1761: he was also an associate of Frederick, Prince of Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ayscough
Francis Ayscough (1701–1763) was a tutor to George III and Clerk of the Closet to his father Frederick, Prince of WalesLeicester Square, North Side, and Lisle Street Area: Leicester Estate: Lisle Street' Survey of London: volumes 33 and 34: St Anne Soho (1966), pp. 472–476. Date accessed: 10 June 2009. and later Dean of . Biography Francis was born in the English county of on 19 December 1701 and baptised on 25 December in[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bishop Of St David's
The Bishop of St Davids is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of St Davids. The succession of bishops stretches back to Saint David who in the 6th century established his seat in what is today the St Davids, city of St Davids in Pembrokeshire, founding St David's Cathedral, St Davids Cathedral. The current bishop of St Davids is Joanna Penberthy, since the Confirmation of bishops, confirmation on 30 November 2016 of her Canonical election, election.Church in Wales — Election of Wales’ first woman bishop is confirmed (Accessed 5 January 2017) History The history of the diocese of St Davids is traditionally traced to that saint in the latter half of the 6th century. Records of t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Squire
Samuel Squire (1714 – 7 May 1766) was a Bishop of the Church of England and a historian. Early life Squire was the son of a druggist in Warminster, Wiltshire, and was first educated at Lord Weymouth's Grammar School. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in 1730 and graduated BA in 1734, winning the Craven scholarship the same year. He was elected a fellow of St John's in 1735, proceeded MA in 1737, and was made a Doctor of Divinity in 1749.Reed Browning,Squire, Samuel (bap. 1714, d. 1766), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 21 June 2009. Ecclesiastical career Squire began his church career in 1739 when he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England; he was ordained priest in 1741, in which year he was appointed vicar of Minting, Lincolnshire. In 1743 was made a canon of Wells Cathedral, and Archdeacon of Bath, holding both preferments until 1761. Adding to his growing number of parish livings, he was appoin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Warburton
William Warburton (24 December 16987 June 1779) was an English writer, literary critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759 until his death. He edited editions of the works of his friend Alexander Pope, and of William Shakespeare. Life Warburton was born on 24 December 1698 at Newark, Nottinghamshire, where his father, George Warburton was town clerk. He was educated at Oakham and Newark grammar schools, and in 1714, he was articled to Mr Kirke, an attorney, at East Markham. In 1719, after serving his articles he returned to Newark, where he began to practise as a solicitor, but, having studied Latin and Greek, changed his mind and was ordained deacon by the Archbishop of York in 1723. He was ordained as a priest in 1726, and in the same year began to associate with literary circles in London. Sir Robert Sutton gave Warburton the small living of Greasley, in Nottinghamshire, exchanged next year for that of Brant Broughton in Lincolnshire. He was, in addition, rector ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chamberlayne (priest)
Thomas Chamberlayne, D.D was Dean of Bristol The Dean of Bristol is the head of the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, Bristol, England. The Dean is Mandy Ford, since her installation on 3 October 2020. List of deans Early modern *1542–1551 William Sno ... from 1739 to 1757. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Chamberlayne, Thomas 18th-century English Anglican priests Deans of Bristol Year of birth missing Year of death missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Wells
The Dean of Wells is the head of the Chapter of Wells Cathedral in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. The dean's residence is The Dean's Lodging, 25 The Liberty, Wells. List of deans High Medieval *1140–1164: Ivo *1164–1189: Richard of Spaxton *1190–1213: Alexander *1213–1216: Leonius *1216–1219: Ralph of Lechlade *1219–1236: Peter of Chichester *1236–1241: William of Merton *1241–1253: John Saracenus *1254–1256: Giles of Bridport *1256–1284: Edward of Cnoll *1284–1292: Thomas Bytton *1292–1295: William Burnell *1295–1302: Walter Haselshaw Late Medieval *1302–1305: Henry Husee *1305–1333: John Godelee *1333–1333: Richard of Bury *1334–1335: Wibert of Littleton *1335–1349: Walter of London *1349–1350: Thomas Fastolf *1350–1361: John of Carleton *1361–1379: Stephen Penpel *1379–1381: John Fordham *1381–1396: Thomas Thebaud ( of Sudbury) *1397–1398: Henry Beaufort *1398–1401: Nicholas Slake *1401–1410: Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Creswick
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His genealog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Booth (priest)
Robert Booth (1662–1730), an aristocratic 18th-century Anglican priest, served as Archdeacon of Durham from 1691 and also as Dean of Bristol from 1708. Early life and family The 6th son of George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer and Lady Elizabeth Grey, eldest daughter of General the Lord Stamford, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating as Master of Arts, before receiving, in 1712, the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He married twice, firstly to his distant cousin Ann Booth, daughter of Sir Robert Booth, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and his second wife Susannah Oxenden, who bore him one son (Barton Booth), and secondly to Mary Hales, who bore 14 children: their youngest son, Nathaniel Booth, succeeded in 1758 as the 4th and last Baron Delamer. His son Robert was MP for Bodmin. Ministry Booth was ordained a deacon at Oxford in 1685 by Bishop John Fell. He was appointed Rector of Satterleigh and Warkleigh in Devon, then collated Archdeacon of Durham on 15 May 1691, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Royse
George Royse DD (b. Martock, 27 May 1655d. Oriel College, Oxford, 27 May 1671) was Dean of Bristol from 1694 until his death. Royse's first Oxford college was St Edmund Hall, Oxford. After that he became a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He was Provost of Oriel from 1691 until 1708. He was also Rector of Newington, Oxfordshire Newington is a village and civil parish in South Oxfordshire, about north of Wallingford. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 102. Archaeology Archaeological work in the grounds of Newington House in the early 1980s and the ... during the same dates. References 17th-century English Anglican priests 18th-century English Anglican priests Provosts of Oriel College, Oxford Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Deans of Bristol 1665 births 1708 deaths People from Somerset {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
