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Deans Of Winchester
The Dean of Winchester is the head of the Chapter of Winchester Cathedral in the city of Winchester, England, in the Diocese of Winchester. Appointment is by the Crown. The first incumbent was the last Prior, William Kingsmill, Catherine Ogle was installed in February 2017. Ogle stepped down in March 2025, and the vice-dean of the cathedral, The Reverend Canon Dr Roland Riem, was appointed interim dean of Winchester Cathedral. List of deans Early modern *1541–1549 William Kingsmill *1549 Roger Tonge *1549–1554 John Mason ''(layman)'' *1554–1559 Edmund Steward *1559–1565 John Warner *1565–1572 Francis Newton *1573–1580 John Watson *1580–1589 Lawrence Humphrey *1589–1600 Martin Heton *1600–1609 George Abbot *1609–1616 Thomas Morton *1616–1654 John Young *1660–1665 Alexander Hyde *1666–1679 William Clarke *1679–1692 Richard Meggot *1692–1722 John Wickart *1722–1729 William Trimnel *1729–1739 Charles Naylor *1739–1748 Zachary Pea ...
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Winchester Cathedral - Geograph
Winchester (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on the River Itchen, Hampshire, River Itchen. It is south-west of London and from Southampton, its nearest city. At the 2021 census, the built-up area of Winchester had a population of 48,478. The wider City of Winchester district includes towns such as New Alresford, Alresford and Bishop's Waltham and had a population of 127,439 in 2021. Winchester is the county town of Hampshire and contains the head offices of Hampshire County Council. Winchester developed from the Roman Britain, Roman town of Venta Belgarum, which in turn developed from an Iron Age ''oppidum''. Winchester was one of if not the most important cities in England until the Norman Conquest in the eleventh century. It now has become one of the most expensive ...
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Thomas Morton (bishop)
Thomas Morton (20 March 156420 September 1659) was an English churchman, bishop of several dioceses. Well-connected and in favour with James I, he was also a significant polemical writer against Roman Catholic views. He rose to become Bishop of Durham, but despite a record of sympathetic treatment of Puritans as a diocesan, and underlying Calvinist beliefs shown in the Gagg controversy, his royalism saw him descend into poverty under the Commonwealth. Life Morton was born in York on 20 March 1564, the sixth of the nineteen children of Richard Morton, mercer, of York, and alderman of the city, by his wife Elizabeth All Saints' Church, Pavement, York. He was brought up and St Peter's School, York, grammar school educated in the city and nearby Halifax, West Yorkshire, Halifax. In 1582, he became a Pensioner#Other uses, pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge from which he graduated with a BA in 1584 and an MA in 1590. William Whitaker (theologian), William Whitaker picked him ...
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Thomas Rennell
Thomas Rennell (8 February 1754–31 March 1840) was an English churchman, dean of Winchester Cathedral and Master of the Temple. Life He was born on 8 February 1754 at Barnack in Northamptonshire, where his father, Thomas Rennell (1720–1798), a prebendary of Winchester, was rector. In 1766 Thomas was sent to Eton, and thence proceeded to King's College, Cambridge, where, in due time, he became a fellow. He was a diligent student, and though, as a King's man, he could not compete for mathematical honours, he obtained in 1778 one of the member's prizes for bachelors for the best Latin essay on 'Government.' He graduated Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1777, Master of Arts (MA) '' per lit. reg.'' in 1779, and Doctor of Divinity (DD) in 1794. At Cambridge, he made the acquaintance of Thomas James Mathias and contributed to the notes of his ''Pursuits of Literature'' (1794-7). Mathias mentions him in the poem, in conjunction with Bishops Horsley and Douglas. Rennell left Camb ...
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Robert Holmes (priest)
Robert Holmes (November 1748 London, England – 12 November 1805 Oxford, England) was an English churchman and academic, Dean of Winchester and a biblical scholar known for textual studies of the ''Septuagint''. Life He was baptised at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, on 30 November 1748, the son of Edmund Holmes of that parish. He became a scholar of Winchester College in 1760, and went to New College, Oxford, matriculating on 3 March 1767. He won the chancellor's prize for Latin verse, the subject being 'Ars Pingendi,' in 1769, the year of it institution. He proceeded B.A. in 1770, was elected fellow of his college, and graduated M.A. in 1774, B.D. in 1787, and D.D. in 1789. He was presented to the college rectory of Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire. His first publication was a sermon preached before the university of Oxford, entitled ''The Resurrection of the Body deduced from the Resurrection of Christ'', 1777 (2nd edit. 1779). In 1778 he published an imitation of Thomas G ...
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Newton Ogle
Newton Ogle (1726–1804) was a Church of England clergyman and member of the landowning Ogle family. The son of Nathaniel Ogle and Elizabeth Newton, he served as a prebendary of Durham Cathedral and from 1769 to 1804 as Dean of Winchester. His wife Susanna Thomas (whom he married in 1757) was daughter of John Thomas, Bishop of Winchester. In 1762, he inherited Kirkley Hall from his brother Dr Nathaniel Ogle – he bought up most of the land lying between Blagdon Hall and Milbourne Hall and between Ponteland and Morpeth, developed the Hall on its present site, built a new eastern archway, and also added an obelisk nearby to mark the centenary of the Glorious Revolution. On his death in 1804, the Hall was inherited by his sons Nathaniel and the Reverend John Saville Ogle. His daughter, Hester Jane, married the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, writer and Whig politician who sat ...
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Jonathan Shipley
Jonathan Shipley (1714 – 6 December 1788) was a clergyman who held offices in the Church of England (including Dean of Winchester from 1760 to 1769), who became Bishop of Llandaff from January to September 1769 and Bishop of St Asaph from September 1769 until his death. Life Early life and career He was the son of a London stationer; and Martha (née Davies), his mother's family were owners of Twyford House, a large manor in Winchester, England. His brother, the portrait painter William Shipley (1714–1803), later originated the Society of Arts. Jonathan grew up at Walbrook in the City of London and was educated at Reading School in Berkshire. He received his college training at St John's College, Oxford, from where he received a BA degree in 1735, an MA degree in 1738, and a DD degree in 1748. He was ordained about 1738, and acted as tutor in the household of the Earl of Peterborough. In 1743, he became rector of Silchester and Sherborne St John in Hampshire, and prebe ...
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Thomas Cheyney (priest)
Thomas Cheney or Cheyney (1694 – 27 January 1760) was a priest of Church of England, who served as Dean of Lincoln from 1744 to 1748 and Dean of Winchester from 25 March 1748 to 1760. He was the only son of another Thomas Cheyney, prebendary of Wells Cathedral and master at Winchester College. Thomas junior was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford New College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by Bishop William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as New College's feeder school, New College was one of the first col ... Winchester College's archives contain several letters to him. Bibliography *G H Blore, ''Thomas Cheyney, Wykehamist, Dean of Winchester'' (Winchester: The Wykeham Press, 1950) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheyney, Thomas 1694 births 1760 deaths Deans of Winchester Alumni of New College, Oxford Deans of Lincoln People educated at Winchester College 18th-centu ...
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Zachary Pearce
Zachary Pearce, sometimes known as Zachariah (8 September 1690 – 29 June 1774), was an English Bishop of Bangor and Bishop of Rochester. He was a controversialist and a notable early critical writer defending John Milton, attacking Richard Bentley's 1732 edition of ''Paradise Lost'' the following year. Life Pearce was born the son of Thomas or John Pearce, a distiller, in 1690 in the parish of St Giles, High Holborn. He first attended Great Ealing School and then Westminster School. He graduated BA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1713/4 and MA in 1717. He was Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1716–1720) ''Concise Dictionary of National Biography'' and chaplain to the Lord Chancellor, Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield. Parker became his patron, to whom Pearce dedicated an edition of the ''De oratore'' of Cicero. He became rector of Stapleford Abbotts, Essex (1719–1722) and St Batholemew, Royal Exchange (1720–1724) He was vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields, L ...
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Charles Naylor (priest)
Charles Naylor was a Church of England clergyman who served as Dean of Winchester The Dean of Winchester is the head of the Chapter of Winchester Cathedral in the city of Winchester, England, in the Diocese of Winchester. Appointment is by the Crown. The first incumbent was the last Prior, William Kingsmill, Catherine Ogle ... from 1729 to 1739. References Deans of Winchester 18th-century Church of England clergy {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ...
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William Trimnel
William Trimnel (died 15 April 1729) was a Church of England clergyman who served as Archdeacon of Norwich around 1720 and as Dean of Winchester from 1722 to 1729. He had three brothers: Charles (Bishop of Norwich and of Winchester), Hugh (king's apothecary), and David David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ... (Archdeacon of Leicester). References Archdeacons of Norwich Deans of Winchester 18th-century English Anglican priests 1729 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub ...
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John Wickart
John Wickart D.D. (d. 29 January 1722) was a Canon of Windsor from 1684 to 1722''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Dean of Winchester from 1693 to 1722. Career He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated MA in 1676, and DD in 1693. He was appointed: *Chaplain-in-Ordinary to King James II 1684 *Rector of Hartley, Westpall 1684 *Dean of Winchester 1693–1722 He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal peculiar, Royal Peculia ... in 1684 and held this until he died in 1722. He was buried in the chapel at Windsor on 3 February 1722. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Wickart, John 1722 deaths Canons of Windsor Deans of Winchester ...
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Richard Meggot
Richard Meggot (died 7 December 1692) was a Canon of Windsor from 1677 to 1692''Fasti Wyndesorienses'', May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and Dean of Winchester from 1679 to 1692. Career He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA 1653, MA 1657 and DD in 1669. He was appointed: *Rector of St Olave's Church, Southwark 1662 *Vicar of Twickenham 1668–1687 *Chaplain in ordinary of King Charles II 1672 He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel, formally titled The King's Free Chapel of the College of St George, Windsor Castle, at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal peculiar, Royal Peculia ... in 1677, and held the stall until 1692. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Meggot, Richard 1692 deaths Canons of Windsor Deans of Winchester Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridg ...
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