George D'Oyly (1778–1846) was an English cleric and academic, theologian and biographer.

Life

The fourth son of Matthias D'Oyly, archdeacon of Lewes and rector of

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, Sussex, he was born 31 October 1778; of his brothers the eldest was Thomas D'Oyly, serjeant-at-law; the second, Sir John D'Oyly; the third, Sir Francis D'Oyly, killed at Waterloo; and the youngest, Major-general Henry D'Oyly. He went to schools at Dorking,

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, and Kensington, and in 1796 he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1800 he graduated BA as second wrangler and second Smith's prizeman, and in 1801 gained the member's prize for the Latin essay. In the same year he was elected a Fellow of his college. Ordained deacon in 1802 by John Buckner, the

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, and priest in 1803 by

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, the Bishop of Gloucester, D'Oyly was curate to his father for a few months in 1803, and in 1804 became curate of

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. From 1806 to 1809 he was moderator in the university of Cambridge, was select preacher in 1809, 1810, and 1811, and proctor in 1808. In 1813 he was appointed domestic chaplain to

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, the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1815 he was presented to the vicarage of Hernhill in Kent, but before he came into residence he was appointed, on the death of his father, rector of Buxted. In 1820 he accepted the rectories of Lambeth, Surrey, and of Sundridge, Kent, and held them for the rest of his life. In 1815 he was elected a

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.Royal Society Database, ''Oyly; George D''' (1778 - 1846)
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, a member of the London committee of the

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, and one of the main promoters of the establishment of King's College London.

Works

In November 1811, by then BD, D'Oyly was appointed Hulsean Christian advocate, and in that capacity attacked Sir William Drummond's theistic work '' Œdipus Judaicus'' in ''Letters to Sir William Drummond'' and ''Remarks on Sir William Drummond's Œdipus Judaicus'' (1813). During his time at Cambridge he was a contributor to the ''

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'' (some of his articles are mentioned in the memoir by his son prefixed to an edition of D'Oyly's sermons). D'Oyly also published: * ''Two Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge on the Doctrine of a Particular Providence and Modern Unitarianism'' (1812); * an annotated bible, prepared with

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for the

("D'Oyly and Mant's Bible") (1st edition, 1814, &c.; 2nd edition, 1817; 3rd edition, 1818); * ''Life of Archbishop Sancroft'', 2 vols. 1821; * ''Sermons, chiefly doctrinal, with notes'', 1827. His sermons delivered at St. Mary's, Lambeth, were published in 1847 in two volumes, with a memoir by his son, C. J. D'Oyly. Some of his sermons and letters on ecclesiastical subjects were published separately. His letter against the secular system of education of

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addressed to

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, and signed "Christianus", was recognised in a resolution of the council of King's College, London (13 February 1846) as "giving the first impulse and direction to public opinion", making D'Oyly "virtually the founder of the college".

Family

D'Oyly married Maria Frances, daughter of William Bruere, formerly one of the principal secretaries to the government of India.

References

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:D'Oyly, George 1778 births 1846 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests British biblical scholars Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Anglican biblical scholars