Henry Gandy (1649–1734) was an English non-juring bishop.

Life

The son of John Gandy of

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, he was born on 14 October 1649; his father was a priest of the Church of England who had been deprived of his living during the

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. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1663, and went on to

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, where he matriculated on 15 March 1667. He graduated B.A. 17 October 1670, M.A. in 1674, and was elected Fellow on 30 November 1670. He served as a proctor, elected 18 April 1683. Gandy was senior fellow of Oriel when he was deprived for refusing the oath of allegiance to

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, in 1690. As a nonjuror he was a leading if anonymous controversialist; and advocated for maintaining the schism in the Church of England, when

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, the sole survivor of the original deprived bishops, in 1710 expressed a wish that the breach should be closed. At that point

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, Robert Nelson and

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returned to the Anglican fold. In 1716 Gandy was consecrated bishop by

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, Nathaniel Spinckes, and Samuel Hawes (died 1722). When the divisive issue of "usages" arose in 1717, he left Collier's party, and followed Spinckes in staying close to Anglican ritual. In 1720 he joined Spinckes and Hawes in consecrating

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and Ralph Taylor (who was to return to the Church of England); on 11 June 1725 he assisted in consecrating John Blackbourne; and in 1726, in consecrating Henry Hall. on 25 March 1728. He presided at the consecration of

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, and in the same year at that of

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. Gandy died in Scroop's Court,

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, the location of his chapel, on 26 February 1734, and was buried in St Pancras churchyard. He left a wife Ann and daughter Anne. His congregation at Scroop's Court passed to Richard Rawlinson and Robert Gordon or Gordoun.

Works

Gandy's publications included: * ''A Letter in Vindication of the Answer to the Queries concerning Schism and Toleration'', 1701, (anon.) * ''Old England ... the Government of England . . . hereditary'', 1705 (anon.) * ''Jure Divino: or an Answer to all ... Republicans'', 1707, (anon.) * ''Bibliotheca Scriptorum Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. . . . Tracts relating to the government ... of the Church of England'', 1709 (anon.) * ''A Conference between Gerontius and Junius. In which Mr. Dodwell's "Case in View now in Fact" is considered'', 1711. He wrote a preface to ''The Subject's Sorrow''

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by Robert Brown.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Gandy, Henry 1649 births 1734 deaths British nonjuror bishops Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford