Thomas Vyner (priest)

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Thomas Vyner DD (1629 - 11 April 1673) was a Church of England minister and Dean of Gloucester

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Family

He was the son of William Vyner of Eathorpe, Warwickshire [1] and younger brother of Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet. [2] He obtained his BA at Catherine Hall, Cambridge in 1650. [1] He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Izod(d. 1650), rector of Stanton, Gloucestershire. [3] In 1652 he succeeded his father-in-law as rector of Stanton and three years later was incorporated at the University of Oxford. [1] He was subsequently awarded a BD in 1662 and became DD in 1671 by letters patent from the king. [1]

He died in 1673 aged 44, and was buried in the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral. [4] He left a son Thomas (d. 1706), who inherited the Gautby estate of his uncle Sir Robert Vyner, and 2 daughters: Elizabeth married John Snell of Salisbury Hall, Hertfordshire and Honor married Thomas Leigh, merchant of London, brother of Sir Francis Leigh. [5] [6]

Clement Barksdale, dedicated his translation of Hugo Grotius to Sir Robert Vyner in 1675 in remembrance of Vyner, referring to 'his learned, generous, and obliging Converse'. [7]

Career

He was appointed:

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714:Vachell-Vyner". British History Online. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
  2. ↑ Vyner, Charles James (1885). Vyner, Family History. p. 45.
  3. ↑ Vyner 1885, p. 53.
  4. 1 2 Vyner 1885, p. 54.
  5. ↑ Vyner 1885, pp. 53–4.
  6. ↑ Visitation of England and Wales, Notes. Vol. 1. 1896. p. 31.
  7. ↑ Eward, Suzanne (1985). No Fine but a Glass of Wine. p. 244.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Alumni cantabrigienses to 1751. Vol. 4. 1927. p. 305.
  9. ↑ Eward 1985, p. 334.
  10. ↑ Ollard, S. L. (May 1950). Fasti Wyndesorienses. Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  11. ↑ Eward 1985, p. 333.

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