Josiah Thomas (1760 - 1820) was Archdeacon of Bath [1] from his installation on 26 April 1817 [2] until his death on 27 May 1820. [3]
Thomas was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon on 22 September 1782 and priest on 20 June 1784. He held incumbencies at St Merryn, Street, Somerset, Backwell, Kingston Deverill and Walcot, Bath.
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 groundbreaking 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.
Thomas or John Carte (1686–1754) was an English historian with Jacobite sympathies, who served as a Church of England clergyman.
Henry Venn, was an English evangelical minister and one of the founders of the Clapham Sect, an influential evangelical group within the Church of England.
Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) was an Anglican theologian. He is known as a Biblical exegete, and as a representative, with William Perkins and John Preston, of what has been called "main-line" Puritanism because he always remained in the Church of England and worshiped according to the Book of Common Prayer.
Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet was Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1714 to 1715, discharging the duties of the office with conspicuous impartiality. His second marriage was the subject of much gossip as his wife eloped with his cousin Thomas Hervey and lived openly with him for the rest of her days. He is, however, perhaps best remembered as being one of the early editors of the works of William Shakespeare.
Richard Nykke became bishop of Norwich under Pope Alexander VI in 1515. Norwich at this time was the second-largest conurbation in England, after London.
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.
The Venerable Thomas Ball was the son of Lawrence Ball, of Eccleston, Lancashire, and a Church of England clergyman.
Anthony Martin was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the first half of the 17th-century.
William Thomas Parr Brymer was Archdeacon of Bath from his installation on 1 April 1840 until his death on 19 August 1852.
Thomas Jackson Calvert (1775–1840) was an English Anglican priest and theologian. Calvert was born in 1775; educated at Kirkham Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge; and ordained in 1800. He held incumbencies at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor and Manchester Collegiate Church. He was Norrisian Professor of Divinity from 1815 to 1824. He died on 4 June 1840.
The Venerable John William Sheringham was an English clergyman.
The Hon Edward Townshend, D.D. was an Anglican dean in the eighteenth century.
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.
Sir Edward Simpson, of Acton, Middlesex was an English politician, lawyer and academic.
Thomas Tipping Aveling was an Anglican priest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Kennedy J. P. Orton was a British chemist. Initially he studied medicine at St. Thomas' Hospital, but there he became interested in chemistry and moved to St. John's College, Cambridge. He then obtained a Ph.D. summa cum laude in Heidelberg under Karl von Auwers, before working for a year with Sir William Ramsey at University College, London. He was then lecturer and demonstrator of Chemistry at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, before in 1903 being appointed Professor of Chemistry at University College of North Wales, Bangor, where he headed the department until his death. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921.
Henry James Marshall was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
Sir William Rose was a British barrister and civil servant who served as Clerk of the Parliaments from 1875 to 1885, succeeding his father.
