Andrew Snape (1675–1742) was an English cleric, academic and headmaster, provost of

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from 1719. Andrew Snape Faber

Life

He was born at

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, the son of Andrew Snape (the younger), serjeant

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to Charles II, and author of ''The Anatomy of an Horse'' (1683). The son was admitted to

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in 1683, and was elected to a scholarship at

, in 1689. He graduated B.A. in 1693, M.A. in 1697, and was created D.D. ''comitiis regiis'' in 1705. Snape became lecturer of St. Martin's, London, and was chaplain to

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, chancellor of the university of Cambridge, by whom he was presented in 1706 to the rectory of the united parishes of

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and

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. In 1707 he was deputed by his university to represent, on its behalf, the faculty of theology at the jubilee of the foundation of the university of Frankfurt-on-the-Oder; and during his stay on the continent he preached a sermon before the

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. He became one of the chaplains in ordinary to Queen Anne, and held the same office under George I. In 1711 Snape was appointed headmaster of Eton, which flourished under his management. The part which he took in the Bangorian controversy gave offence at court, and his name, like that of

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, was removed from the list of king's chaplains. On the death of

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he was chosen provost of King's College, Cambridge, in February 1719. He was vice-chancellor of the university in 1723–4. Early in 1737 he became rector of

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, but resigned the living in August of the same year, when he was presented by the chapter of Windsor to the rectory of West Ildesley,

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. Snape died in his lodgings in

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on 30 December 1742. He was buried in the south aisle of St. George's Chapel.

Works

Snape was one of the principals in the Bangorian controversy, and in numerous pamphlets he attacked the principles upheld by

Benjamin Hoadly Benjamin Hoadly (14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy. Li ...

. The first of his ''Letters to the Bishop of Bangor'' passed through seventeen editions in the year of its publication, 1717. The sermons which he published separately were, with additions, printed as ''Forty-five Sermons on several Subjects'', 3 vols. London, 1745, under the editorship of John Chapman, D.D., and William Berriman, D.D. In two Spital sermons preached in 1707 and 1718 he advocate humane treatment of the mentally ill. He contributed verses to the university collections on the death of Queen Mary, the

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, and the accession of Queen Anne. Snape was the editor of

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's ''Sermons'' (1732); but the preface, "by a Learned Hand", was by

Zachary Grey Zachary Grey (6 May 1688 – 1766) was an English priest, controversialist, and conservative spokesman for the Church of England. He was also an editor, commentator on William Shakespeare, and critic of dissenter historians. Life Grey was the ...

Family

Snape married Rebecca, widow of Sir Joshua Sharp,

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, and daughter of John Hervey, merchant, of London.

References

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