Edward Gee (1657–1730) was an English churchman, known as a controversialist, and later successively

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Life

The son of George Gee of

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, a shoemaker, he was baptised at Manchester Collegiate Church on 29 August 1657. After attending

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, he was admitted a sub-sizar at

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, on 9 May 1676. He graduated B.A. in 1679 and M.A. in 1683. He was incorporated in his master's degree at Oxford 4 March 1684. Subsequently, he is styled D.D., a

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from 1695. He took a prominent part in the anti-Catholic controversy towards the end of James II's reign. In May 1688 he was appointed rector of

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, London, and soon after he was called chaplain in ordinary to

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. On 6 December 1701 he was installed prebendary of Westminster. Twenty years afterwards, on 9 December 1721, he was instituted dean of Peterborough, but he resigned that office for the deanery of Lincoln, to which he was presented by the crown on 30 March 1722. A few days later he was installed prebendary of Lincoln. At the time of his death he was also incumbent of

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, and rector of

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. He died on 1 March 1730, and was buried in

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Works

He wrote the following quarto tracts: * ''Veteres Vindicati, in an expostulatory letter to Mr. Sclater of Putney'', 1687. * ''An Answer to the Compiler of the Nubes Testium'', 1688. * ''A Vindication of the Principles of the Author of the Answer'', 1688. * ''The Primitive Fathers no Papists'', 1688. * ''The Judgment of Archbishop Cranmer concerning the People's Right to, and discreet Use of, the Holy Scriptures'', 1689. * ''A Letter to Father Lewis Sabran'' (on Invocation of Saints), 1688. Against Louis de Sabran. * ''A Second Letter to Sabran'', 1688. * ''A Third Letter to Sabran'', 1688. * ''A Letter to the Superiours who approve and license the Popish Books in England'', 1688. * ''The Texts Examined which Papists cite out of the Bible for the Proof of their Doctrine concerning the Worship of Images and Reliques'', 1688. * ''The Texts examined concerning the Seven Sacraments'', 1688. * Part II. of the same work, 1688. * ''The Catalogue of all the Discourses published against Popery during the Reign of King James II'', 1689. Several of these are reprinted in

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's '' Preservative against Popery'', and

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's ''Enchiridion Theologicum''. He also published ''The Jesuit's Memorial for the intended Reformation of England: with an Introduction and some Animadversions'', 1690; it was written by

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. In 1692 he printed ''Of the Improvement of Time, a Sermon'', 1692.

Family

He married, on 25 January 1703, Jane, daughter of Henry Limbrey of London and Hoddington in Upton-Gray,

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, and by her had several children, whose names are recorded in the Westminster Abbey registers.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Gee, Edward 1657 births 1730 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests 18th-century English Anglican priests Deans of Lincoln Deans of Peterborough Canons of Westminster Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge People educated at Manchester Grammar School