George Rye

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George Rye was an English Anglican priest in the 18th century. [1]

Rye was born in Culworth, the son of George and Elizabeth Rye (nee Tipping). The elder George Rye was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn [2] and was appointed a “Gentleman of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber in ordinary” in 1672. [3]

George Rye was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, [4] and Oriel College, Oxford, earning his B.A. in 1695, his M.A. in 1698, a B.D. in 1713-14 and his D.D. in 1715. [5] Rye published a copy of his sermon, "The Supremacy of the Crown, and the Power of the Church, Asserted and Adjusted. A sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford, at St Mary's, on Sunday Jan. 17. 1713/14" [6] and held livings at Adwell, Islip and Ickford. He was appointed Archdeacon of Oxford in 1724; [7] and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford as well as being appointed as a canon of Christ Church, Oxford in 1737, holding all three positions until his death on 4 July 1741. He was buried at Culworth.

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References

  1. ↑ "The Monthly chronicle, Volume 1" p19: London; Aaron Ward; 1728
  2. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1891). "Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 : Their Parentage, Birthplace and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees : Being the Matriculation Register of the University".
  3. ↑ "An Inquiry into the Place and Quality of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber". 1829.
  4. ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Rabbetts-Rhodes
  5. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1891). "Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 : Their Parentage, Birthplace and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees : Being the Matriculation Register of the University".
  6. ↑ "B40371 | Eton Collections".
  7. ↑ Horn, Joyce M. (1996), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 8, pp. 84–85


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