Francis Wanley, Doctor of Divinity (b Marske 25 April 1709; d Ripon 9 July 1791) was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 18th century. [1]
Wanley was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge. [2] He held livings at Thirkleby, Aldborough and Stokesley. He was Dean of Ripon [3] from 1750 to 1791. [4]
John Venn, FRS, FSA was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science. In 1866, Venn published The Logic of Chance, a ground-breaking book which espoused the frequency theory of probability, arguing that probability should be determined by how often something is forecast to occur as opposed to “educated” assumptions. Venn then further developed George Boole's theories in the 1881 work Symbolic Logic, where he highlighted what would become known as Venn diagrams.
William Henry Richards was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
Robert Darley Waddilove was Dean of Ripon.
Nathaniel Wanley was an English clergyman and writer, known for The Wonders of the Little World.
John Archibald Venn was a British economist. He was President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1932 until his death, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University 1941–1943, university archivist, and author, with his father, of Alumni Cantabrigienses. His father was logician John Venn.
Roger Massey, MA was Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1791 to 1798.
John Jones (1791–1889) was the second Archdeacon of Liverpool, serving from 1855 until 1886.
John Chevallier, FRS was an eighteenth century academic, most notably Master of St John's College, Cambridge from 1775 until his death and Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1776 until 1777.
Robert Wharton was Archdeacon of Stow from 1791 until his death.
Heneage Dering, LL.D (1665–1750) was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 18th century. He became Dean of Ripon and was known also as a Latin poet.
John Neile D.D. was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 17th century.
Thomas DodD.D. was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 17th century.
Moses Fowler was Dean of Ripon from 1604 until his death in March 1608.
William Craven, D.D. was a priest and academic in the second half of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th centuries.
Robert Lambert, D.D. was a priest and academic in the second half of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th centuries.
Richard Fisher BelwardD.D. FRS was an academic in England in the second half of the 18th century and the early years of the 19th. He was born Richard Fisher, adopting the name Belward in 1791.
William Buckenham was a 16th-century priest and academic.
Thomas Browne (1766–1832) was a priest and academic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
William Towers , D.D. was a priest and academic in the eighteenth century.
Henry Crowe was an English parish priest and early animal rights writer.
