Lilly Butler (died Jan 1792) was an Anglican priest, most notably Dean of Ardagh from 1785 to 1790. [1]
He was born in Bletchingley and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. [2]
He was ordained deacon in 1754, and priest in 1756. He held livings at Wotton Underwood, Battersea and Witham. [3] He died in January 1792.
Pierre-Joseph Cambon was a French statesman. He is perhaps best known for speaking up against Maximilien Robespierre at the National Convention, sparking the end of Robespierre's reign.
The September Massacres were a series of killings and summary executions of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people were killed by sans-culottes, fédérés, and guardsmen, with the support of gendarmes responsible for guarding the tribunals and prisons, the Cordeliers, the Committee of Surveillance of the Commune, and the revolutionary sections of Paris.
Alexander Geddes was a Scottish Catholic theologian and scholar. He translated a major part of the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible into English.
Josephus Franciscus Mohr, sometimes spelled Josef was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night."
Inconfidência Mineira was an unsuccessful separatist movement in Brazil in 1789. It was the result of a confluence of external and internal causes in what was then colonial Brazil. The external inspiration was the independence of thirteen British colonies in North America following the American Revolutionary War, a development that impressed the intellectual elite of particularly the captaincy of Minas Gerais.
William Lort Mansel was an English churchman and Cambridge fellow. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1798 to his death in 1820, and also Bishop of Bristol from 1808 to 1820.
Joseph Allen was a British clergyman. He was the son of William Allen and his wife Nelly Livesey. William Allen was a partner in Manchester's first Bank, Byrom, Allen, Sedgwick and Place but was made bankrupt in 1788 on the failure of the Bank. This was despite inheriting £20,000 from his father, John Allen, of Davyhulme Hall, Eccles. Allen was educated at the Free Grammar School, Manchester and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a fellowship in 1793. He was ordained deacon in 1799 and priest in 1800.
Francis John Hyde Wollaston FRS was an English natural philosopher and Jacksonian Professor at the University of Cambridge.
Folliott Herbert Walker Cornewall was an English bishop of three sees.
William Hodge Mill (1792–1853) was an English churchman and orientalist, the first principal of Bishop’s College, Calcutta and later Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge.
Peter Peckard was an English Whig, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, Church of England minister and abolitionist. From 1781 he was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was incorporated at Cambridge in 1782, appointed vice-chancellor in 1784, and created Doctor of Divinity (DD) per literas regias in 1785. In April 1792 he became Dean of Peterborough.
Charles Mongan Warburton was a 19th-century Anglican bishop who served two Irish Dioceses.
John Porter was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland.
John Buckner, LL.D. (1734–1824) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Chichester from 1797 to 1824.
Jonathan Davies was an English schoolmaster and Anglican priest, a Canon of Windsor from 1782 to 1791.
Luke Heslop was an Anglican priest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Events from the year 1792 in France.
Christopher Wilson was an English churchman who served as Bishop of Bristol.
Arthur Coham was an English Anglican priest who was the Archdeacon of Wilts from 5 March 1779 until his death.
Benedict Chapman was a college master at the University of Cambridge and an Anglican rector.