Gregory Hascard

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Gregory Hascard DD (died 15 November 1708) was a Canon of Windsor from 1671 to 1684 [1] and then Dean of Windsor from 1684 until 1708, but he was also a noted pluralist. He wrote three books on religious subjects.

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Life

Born in Grantham, the son of Thomas Hascard and Alice Hand, Hascard married Rachel Fane on 4 February 1667, at Gray's Inn Chapel, Middlesex (now London WC1).

Hascard was a member of the Order of Little Bedlam, a gentlemen's drinking club, founded in 1684. Portraits held at Burghley House by John Riley and Antonio Verrio painted him as god Bacchus are as a result of being a member. [2]

In 1689 he bought the Baylis estate in the Parish of Stoke Poges and in 1696 had built Baylis House. [3]

He was buried in St Giles's Church, Stoke Poges, where a monument was erected in his memory. [4]

Career

Hascard was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a BA in 1661, an MA in 1664, and a DD in 1671. Thereafter he held clerical appointments in plurality, as Rector of St Michael Queenhithe (1669–1671), Rector of Brickhill Bow, Buckinghamshire (1669–1671), Prebendary of Salisbury (1671–1708), Chaplain to the King (1677–1708), Rector of St Clement Danes (1678–1708), Rector of Bishops Stoke, and Rector of Great Haseley (1697–1708). He was appointed to the third stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 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:

Notes

  1. ↑ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
  2. ↑ Haschard, Gregory. "A Portrait of Dr. Haschard, Dean of Windsor". www.collections.burghley.co.uk/. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  3. ↑ BAYLIS PARK, SLOUGH (7 June 2018). "Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust – Member of The Gardens Trust". Research & Recording Project. 1: 5. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
  4. ↑ 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).

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