William Meade was an American Episcopal bishop,the third Bishop of Virginia.
Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801) was an English scholar and controversialist. He moved from being a cleric and academic,into tutoring at dissenting academies,and finally became a professional writer and publicist. In a celebrated state trial,he was imprisoned for a pamphlet critical of government policy of the French Revolutionary Wars;and died shortly after his release.
Bruton Parish Church is located in the restored area of Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg,Virginia,United States. It was established in 1674 by the consolidation of two previous parishes in the Virginia Colony,and remains an active Episcopal parish. The building,constructed 1711–15,was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 as a well-preserved early example of colonial religious architecture.
Rev. Jonathan Boucher FRSE,FSA was an English clergyman,teacher,preacher and philologist.
Sion College,in London,is an institution founded by royal charter in 1630 as a college,guild of parochial clergy and almshouse,under the 1623 will of Thomas White,vicar of St Dunstan's in the West.
James Blair was a Scottish-born clergyman in the Church of England. He was also a missionary and an educator,best known as the founder of the College of William &Mary in Williamsburg,Virginia.
Bow Church is the parish church of St Mary and Holy Trinity,Stratford,Bow. It is located on a central reservation site in Bow Road,in Bow,in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. There has been a church on the same site for approximately 700 years. The church was bombed in the Second World War,and the bell tower was reconstructed just after the war.
Richard Channing Moore was the second bishop of the Diocese of Virginia (1814–1841).
Vernon Meredith Geddy Sr. was an attorney based in Williamsburg,Virginia. He attended the College of William and Mary and the University of Virginia,and served W&M as the head coach for the William &Mary Tribe men's basketball team for the 1918–19 season.
William Dawson (1704–1752) was an Anglican clergyman,poet and member of the Governor's Council of Virginia who became the second president of The College of William &Mary in Williamsburg,Virginia (1743-1752).
The history of the College of William &Mary can be traced back to a 1693 royal charter establishing "a perpetual College of Divinity,Philosophy,Languages,and the good arts and sciences" in the British Colony of Virginia. It fulfilled an early colonial vision dating back to 1618 to construct a university level program modeled after Cambridge and Oxford at Henricus. A plaque on the Wren Building,the college's first structure,ascribes the institution's origin to "the college proposed at Henrico." It was named for the reigning joint monarchs of Great Britain,King William III and Queen Mary II. The selection of the new college's location on high ground at the center ridge of the Virginia Peninsula at the tiny community of Middle Plantation is credited to its first President,Reverend Dr. James Blair,who was also the Commissary of the Bishop of London in Virginia. A few years later,the favorable location and resources of the new school helped Dr. Blair and a committee of 5 students influence the House of Burgesses and Governor Francis Nicholson to move the capital there from Jamestown. The following year,1699,the town was renamed Williamsburg.
Adam Empie was an Episcopal priest in North Carolina and Virginia,who also taught and served as President of the College of William and Mary.
William Yates,was a clergyman in the Church of England,educator,fifth president of the College of William &Mary and is the namesake for Yates Hall on the College's campus.
Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler,usually cited as J. A. C. Chandler,was an American historian,author and educator. He is best known as the 18th president of The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg,Virginia,where he served as the successor to retiring fellow educator and author Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Dr. Chandler is credited with transforming the institution from a small,struggling liberal arts college for men into a modern coeducational institution of higher learning.
John Camm (1718–1778) was an Anglican priest who served as the seventh president of the College of William and Mary. He was a fierce Tory advocate of the prerogative of the Crown and the established Church.
William Holland Wilmer was an Episcopal priest,teacher and writer in Maryland and Virginia who served briefly as the eleventh president of the College of William and Mary.
Richard Hooker Wilmer was the second Bishop of Alabama in the Episcopal Church. Richard Wilmer was the only bishop to be consecrated by the Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America (PECCSA).
John Hutchins (1698–1773) was a Church of England clergyman and English topographer,who is best known as a county historian of Dorset.
The first known observations and recording of a transit of Venus were made in 1639 by the English astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and his friend and correspondent William Crabtree. The pair made their observations independently on 4 December that year;Horrocks from Carr House,then in the village of Much Hoole,Lancashire,and Crabtree from his home in Broughton,near Manchester.
Joseph Hirst Lupton (1836–1905) was an English schoolmaster,cleric and writer.
