Thomas Wise D.D. (1670/71–1726) was an eighteenth-century clergyman of the
Church of England.
Life
He was born at
Drayton, Vale of White Horse, the son of John Wise from
Dorchester, Oxfordshire.
[ Charles William Boase, ''Register of the rectors, fellows, and other members of the foundation of Exeter College, Oxford'' (1894), p. 126.] He was educated at
Exeter College, Oxford, where he was fellow 1694–1726.
He became rector of St Alphege Church,
Canterbury (1709),
vicar of
Bekesbourne (1711),
Six Preacher of
Canterbury Cathedral
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(1711),
prebendary of
Lincoln Cathedral
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(1720), and was
chaplain
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to the
Princess of Wales
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The title was firs ...
(1721) and the
Duke of Ormonde.
Works
In 1706 he published an abridgement of
Ralph Cudworth's ''Intellectual System''.
In 1711 he published ''The Christian Eucharist Rightly Stated''.
Notes
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1671 births
1726 deaths
People from Oxfordshire (before 1974)
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
Canterbury Cathedral
Anglican chaplains
English chaplains
18th-century English Anglican priests