Thomas Sayer

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Thomas Sayer (b London 6 July 1651 - d Winchester 3 June 1710) was an Anglican priest in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. [1]

Sayer was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1673. [2] Sayer was Chaplain to Peter Mews, Bishop of Winchester [3] then Archdeacon of Surrey from 1689 until his death. [4]

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References

  1. Brayley, E. W. (1841). A Topographical History of Surrey. Vol. 2. p. 262. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Sabery-saywell
  3. Stephen Hyde Cassan, Lives of the Bishops of Winchester, 1827: London; C. & J. Rivington; 1827
  4. Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, pp. 88–89