Gregory Hascard DD (died 15 November 1708) was a

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from 1671 to 1684 and then

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from 1684 until 1708, but he was also a noted pluralist. He wrote three books on religious subjects.

Life

Born in

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, the son of Thomas Hascard and Alice Hand, Hascard married Rachel Fane on 4 February 1667, at

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(now London WC1). Hascard was a member of the Order of Little Bedlam, a gentlemen's drinking club, founded in 1684. Portraits held at

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by John Riley and

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painted him as god Bacchus are as a result of being a member. In 1689 he bought the Baylis estate in the Parish of Stoke Poges and in 1696 had built

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. He was buried in St Giles's Church,

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, where a monument was erected in his memory.''Views of the Most Interesting Collegiate and Parochial Churches in Great Britain'' by John Preston Neale and John Le Keux (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824).

Career

Hascard was educated at

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, where he was awarded a BA in 1661, an MA in 1664, and a DD in 1671. Thereafter he held clerical appointments in

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, as Rector of

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(1669–1671), Rector of Brickhill Bow,

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(1669–1671), Prebendary of Salisbury (1671–1708), Chaplain to the King (1677–1708), Rector of

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(1678–1708), Rector of Bishops Stoke, and Rector of Great Haseley (1697–1708). He was appointed to the third stall in

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in 1671, a position he held until 1684 when he was appointed Dean of Windsor.

Publications

Hascard was the author of three published religious works: *''A discourse about the charge of novelty upon the reformed Church of England: made by the papists asking of us the question, where was our religion before Luther?'' (London: Printed for Robert Horn, and Fincham Gardiner, 1683.) *''A sermon preached before the ... lord mayor ... at the parish-church of St. Botolph, Aldgate'' (London: Walter Kettilby, 1685) *''A short examination of a discourse concerning edification, by Dr. Hascard, in a letter'' (London : A. Baldwin, 1700)

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