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Sir Erasmus Henry Dryden, 5th Baronet (1669–1710) was an English Roman Catholic priest (Father Thomas, OP) and baronet.


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Erasmus Henry, born 2 May 1669, was the third son of the poet
John Dryden John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration (En ...
, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire (8 October 1587 – 16 July 1669) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1605 and 1622. He was created Earl of Berkshire in 1626. Life Howard was born in Saffron Walden, Essex, ...
. He was a scholar at the Charterhouse, and "elected to the university" November 1685. He studied at Douay, entered the novitiate of the Dominicans in 1692, was ordained priest in 1694. Dryden was at Rome in 1697, residing in the convent of the English Dominicans, and in that year was sent to the Holy Cross convent in Bornheim, of which he was sub-prior until 1700. He then returned to England to labour on the mission in Northamptonshire. cites Gillow, ''English Catholics''. From 1708, he resided at
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, which in that year had passed by will to his cousin Edward, eldest son of his father's younger brother, Erasmus. In 1710, he became baronet upon the death of another cousin, Sir John Dryden, 4th Baronet, grandson of the Sir Erasmus Drayton, 1st Baronet, of Canons-Ashby (1619). The 5th Baronet died later that same year and was buried at Canons Ashby on 4 December 1710. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his uncle, Sir Erasmus Dryden, 6th Baronet.


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Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus ( ; ; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and Catholic theology, theologian, educationalist ...