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Deans Of Gloucester
The Dean of Gloucester is the head (''primus inter pares'': first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons - the ruling body of Gloucester Cathedral - and senior priest of the Diocese of Gloucester. The dean and chapter are based at Gloucester Cathedral. The cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Gloucester and seat of the Bishop of Gloucester. List of deans Early modern *1541–1565 William Jennings *1565–1569 John Man *1569–1570 Thomas Cooper *1571–1580 Lawrence Humphrey *1580–1585 ''Vacancy'' *1585–1594 Anthony Rudd *1594–1607 Griffith Lewis *1607–1609 Thomas Moreton *1609–1616 Richard Field *1616–1621 William Laud *1621–1624 Richard Senhouse *1624–1631 Thomas Winniffe *1631–1631 George Warburton *1631–1643 Accepted Frewen *1643–1671 William Brough *1671–1673 Thomas Vyner *1673–1681 Robert Frampton *1681–1685 Thomas Marshall *1685–1707 William Jane *1707–1720 Knightly Chetwood *1720–1723 John Waugh *172 ...
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Gloucester Cathedral Courtyard
Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east of the border with Wales. Including suburban areas, Gloucester has a population of around 132,000. It is a port, linked via the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal to the Severn Estuary. Gloucester was founded by the Romans and became an important city and ''colony'' in AD 97 under Emperor Nerva as '' Colonia Glevum Nervensis''. It was granted its first charter in 1155 by Henry II. In 1216, Henry III, aged only nine years, was crowned with a gilded iron ring in the Chapter House of Gloucester Cathedral. Gloucester's significance in the Middle Ages is underlined by the fact that it had a number of monastic establishments, including: St Peter's Abbey founded in 679 (later Gloucester Cathedral), the nearby St Oswald's Priory, Glouceste ...
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William Brough (priest)
William Brough (died 1671) was an English royalist churchman, Dean of Gloucester from 1643. Life He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he matriculated in 1613, graduating B.A. 1617 and M.A. 1620. He proceeded B.D. 1627, and D.D. 5 February 1636. He was presented to the rectory of St. Michael, Cornhill, from 1625. Brough was a supporter of William Laud and his Arminian views, was made chaplain to the king, and was installed canon of Windsor, 1 February 1639. At the beginning of the First English Civil War The First English Civil War took place in England and Wales from 1642 to 1646, and forms part of the 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. They include the Bishops' Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Second English Civil War, the Anglo ..., he was removed from his benefice by the parliamentary commission, and lost his home and possessions. Thomas Holl was intruded as rector. His wife died soon afterwards, and Brough joined the king at Oxford. On 16 ...
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Edward Rice (priest)
Edward Rice (19 November 1779 – 15 August 1862) was Dean of Gloucester from 1825 until his death. The second son of the Welsh politician George Rice and his wife the Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. In 1800 he married Charlotte Lascelles, the illegitimate daughter of General Francis Lascelles and singer Ann Catley. Their second son was Francis William Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor. He was Precentor of York Minster from 1802, and Prebend of Driffield Driffield, also known as Great Driffield, is a market town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The civil parish is formed by the town of Driffield and the village of Little Driffield. By road, it is north-east of Leeds ... until his death; and held the living at Great Rissington from 1810 to 1856 when he passed it to his eldest son, Henry. Notes 1779 births People from Marylebone Deans of Gloucester 1862 deaths Edward Younger son ...
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John Plumptre (priest)
John Plumptre was an Anglican dean and author. Born on 11 March 1754, he was educated at EtonWilliam Gibson, ‘Plumptre, John (1754–1825)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 4 April 2013/ref> and King's College, Cambridge (elected Fellow, 1776). From 1778 until his death on 26 November 1825 he was Vicar of Stone, Worcestershire; to which he added, in 1790, the living at Wichenford; and, in 1808, the office of Dean of Gloucester The Dean of Gloucester is the head (''primus inter pares'': first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons - the ruling body of Gloucester Cathedral - and senior priest of the Diocese of Gloucester. The dean and chapter are based at Glouc .... References 1754 births 1825 deaths Deans of Gloucester Fellows of King's College, Cambridge People educated at Eton College Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ...
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John Luxmoore
John Luxmoore or Luxmore (1766–1830) was an English bishop of three sees. Life The son of John Luxmoore of Okehampton, Devon, he was born there. He was educated at Ottery St. Mary school and at Eton College, going as a scholar in 1775 to King's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1780 and proceeded M.A. in 1783. On 30 June 1795 he was created D.D. at Lambeth by Archbishop John Moore. He became fellow of his college, and having been tutor to the Earl of Dalkeith, he obtained preferment. He was made rector of St. George's, Bloomsbury, in 1782, prebendary of Canterbury in 1703, dean of Gloucester in 1799, and rector of Taynton in 1800. In 1806 he exchanged St. George's, Bloomsbury, for St. Andrew's, Holborn. In 1807 he became bishop of Bristol A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or ...
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Josiah Tucker
Josiah Tucker (also Josias) (December 1713 – 4 November 1799), also known as Dean Tucker, was a Welsh churchman, known as an economist and political writer. He was concerned in his works with free trade, Jewish emancipation and American independence. He became Dean of Gloucester. Life He was born at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire; his father inherited a small estate near Aberystwyth, and sent his son to Ruthin School, Denbighshire. Tucker obtained an exhibition at St John's College, Oxford. He graduated B.A. in 1736, M.A. in 1739, and DD in 1755. In 1737 he became curate of St. Stephen's Church in Bristol, and two years later rector of All Saints' Church in the same city. He was appointed to a minor canonry in the cathedral, and was noticed by Bishop Joseph Butler, to whom he was for a time domestic chaplain. On the death of Alexander Stopford Catcott in 1749 Tucker was appointed by the chancellor to the rectory of St. Stephen's. In 1754 Robert Nugent was elected for Brist ...
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Daniel Newcombe
Daniel Newcombe was an Anglican dean in the mid 18th century. Newcombe was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1702 and held livings at Caldecote, Thornhaugh and Penmark. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1725 until 1730; and Dean of Gloucester The Dean of Gloucester is the head (''primus inter pares'': first among equals) and chair of the chapter of canons - the ruling body of Gloucester Cathedral - and senior priest of the Diocese of Gloucester. The dean and chapter are based at Glouc ...'Cantabrigia Depicta. A concise and accurate description of the University and town of Cambridge, and its environs' p117: Cambridge, J Burges, 1796 from 1730 until his death on 3 March 1758. References Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 18th-century English Anglican priests Deans of Gloucester 1758 deaths {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ...
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Peter Allix (priest)
(John) Peter Allix, D.D. (22 August 1679 – 11 January 1758) was an Anglican dean in the early 18th century. Allix was born in Alençon and graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1703. From 1705 to 1714, he was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He held livings at Swaffham, Fordham and Dry Drayton. He was Dean of Gloucester from 1729 until 1730; and Dean of Ely The position of Dean of Ely Cathedral, in East Anglia, England, in the Diocese of Ely was created in 1541 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The first Dean of Ely had been the last Benedictine prior of Ely. List of deans Early mode ... from then until his death in Castle Camps. References 1679 births 1758 deaths 18th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Deans of Ely Deans of Gloucester Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge People from Alençon {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ...
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John Frankland
The Very Revd John Frankland (1669 – 1730) was an 18th-century academic and Dean in the Church of England. The youngest son of Sir William Frankland, 1st Baronet, he was born at Thirkleby and educated at Eton College. He graduated B.A. from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1695, and M.A. in 1698. He was elected a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1700; and ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1702. He held livings in Oswaldkirk and Bristol. Frankland was Dean of Gloucester from 1723 until 1729, and then Dean of Ely until his death on 3 September 1730, he was also elected Master of Sidney Sussex in 1726, and then Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge for 1728–29. Dr Frankland married Mary Turton, leaving an only son the Revd John Frankland, also a clergyman. See also * Frankland baronets The Frankland Baronetcy, of Thirkelby (or Thirkleby) in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of England, created on 24 December 166 ...
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John Waugh (bishop)
John Waugh (1656–1734) was an English clergyman, bishop of Carlisle from 1723. Life He was born in Appleby, and entered The Queen's College, Oxford in 1679. He became a Fellow there in 1688, and a Proctor in 1695. He was rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill in 1704, and subsequently became a royal chaplain, canon of Lincoln in 1718, and dean of Gloucester in 1720. He was promoted as bishop of Carlisle in 1723. He died on 29 October 1734, at the London residence in Queen's Square, and was buried in St. Peter's, Cornhill. His son John Waugh became Dean of Worcester in 1751. References *John Richard Magrath, ''The Queen's college'' vol. 2 (1921). p. 116. *Mark Noble, James Granger James Granger (1723–1776) was an English clergyman, biographer, and print collector. He is now known as the author of the ''Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution'' (1769). Granger was an early advocate of an ..., ''A biographical history of England'' vol. ...
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Knightly Chetwood
Knightly Chetwood (also Knightley Chetwood) (born Chetwode, 1650; died Tempsford, 1720) was an Anglican priest, poet, and translator. Life Chetwood was the eldest son of Valentine Chetwood of Chetwood, Buckinghamshire and his wife Mary Shute, daughter of Francis Shute of Upton, Leicestershire. His younger brother Benjamin Chetwood moved to Ireland, where he sat in the Irish House of Commons, and made an advantageous marriage to one of the co-heiresses of the Eustace family of Harristown, Naas South. He was baptised on 29 October 1650. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He was ordained a priest in London on 4 March 1683. He held the living at Great Rissington. He became Archdeacon of York on 10 January 1689. He was the Dean of Gloucester from 1707 until his death on 4 April 1720. Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 p445 Works Chetwood's works are: * ''A Life of Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon'', in Baker MS. xxxvi. 27–44, on Wentworth Dillon, 4th ...
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William Jane
William Jane (1645–1707) was an English academic and clergyman, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford from 1680. Life The son of Joseph Jane, he was born at Liskeard, Cornwall, where he was baptised on 22 October 1645. He was educated at Westminster School, elected student of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1660, and graduated B.A. in June 1664, M.A. in 1667, and D.D. in November 1674. After his ordination he was appointed lecturer at Carfax Church, Oxford. He attracted the notice of Henry Compton, who became canon of Christ Church in 1669, and when Compton was created bishop of Oxford in 1674 he chose Jane to preach the sermon at his consecration, and appointed him one of his chaplains. In 1678 he was made canon of Christ Church, and was further presented by Compton, then bishop of London, to the rectory of Wennington, Essex. In 1679 the prebendal stall of Chamberlainswood in St. Paul's Cathedral and the archdeaconry of Middlesex were conferred on him. In May 1680 he was made r ...
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