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VINCENT, WILLIAM, eldest surviving son of William St. Andrew Vincent (qv); b. 17 May 1809; adm. 17 Sep 1816; readm. 15 Jan 1823 (Stikeman's); Min. Can. 1824; Christ Church, Oxford, maytr. 29 Nov 1829; BA 1831; MA 1850; ordained deacon 8 Jun 1833, priest 21 Jun 1834 (both Chichester); Curate, Cowfold, Sussex 9 Jun 1833; Vicar of Steventon, Berks., 1 Nov 1839-51; Perpetual Curate of Holy Trinity, Islington, Middlesex 1851-64; Perpetual Curate of Chipperfield, Herts., from 1864; m. 16 Oct 1838 Ann, youngest dau. of William Stace, Principal Storekeeper, Woolwich Arsenal; d. 11 Apr 1872.

VINCENT, WILLIAM ST. ANDREW, eldest son of William Vincent (adm. 1748, qv); b. 30 Nov 1772; adm. 30 Mar 1780; KS 1786; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1791, matr. 22 Jun 1791, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1791 - void 11 Jun 1804 (expiry year of grace as R. All Hallows the Great from 20 Jul 1803); BA 1795; MA 1797; BD 1827; Prebendary of Chichester from 1 Apr 1801; Rector of All Hallows the Great, London, from 9 Jun 1803; Rector of Bolney, Sussex, from 13 Dec 1827; m. 1 Aug 1803 Frances Elizabeth Gayfere, dau. of Evan Jones, Oakham, Rutland; d. 22 Jul 1849.

VINCENT, THOMAS; b.; adm. 14 Jan 1772; in school lists 1775.

Vincent, Thomas; Son of John Vincent, Fontmell, Dorset, edge tool maker, and his first wife ; b. ; ed. Blandford ; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 6 May 1636, aged 18 ; Usher, Westminster School, in 1643 ; Under Master, Westminster School 1645- May 1656, when he retired owing to ill-health ; his diary for the first four months of 1655 survives in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Rawlinson D216 (J.B.Whitmore, “The diary of Thomas Vincent, undermaster of Westminster School, 1655”, in Bodleian Library Record 5, 1956, 308-11) ; “a most able, diligent school-master ; and one who grieved so much at the dullness and non-proficiency of any of his scholars, that, falling into a consumption, I have heard Mr.Henery (Philip Henry, qv) say of him, ‘that he even killed himself with false Latin” ; d. 1657 (will dated 11 May 1657, proved 13 Nov 1657).

VINCENT, THOMAS; b.; adm.; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1617, adm. scholar 1618, matr. Easter 1618; BA 1621/2; MA 1625; BD 1633; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1624; ordained deacon 1625/6, priest 1626 (both Lincoln); Minister, St. Edward’s, Cambridge 1631; Vicar of Blyth, Notts., from 17 Apr 1633; buried Blyth, Notts., 28 Sep 1633.

VINCENT, THOMAS, son of George Giles Vincent (qv), and his second wife; b. 26 Nov 1819; adm. 20 Apr 1830; KS 1834; left 1838; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge; BA 1842; MA 1845; ordained deacon 18 Dec 1842, priest 17 Dec 1843 (both Winchester); Curate, Long Sutton, Hampshire 1842-4, Bolney, Sussex 1845-6, Wantage, Berks., 1847-68; Chaplain, St. Mary’s Home for Penitents, Wantage, Berks., 1860-8; Rector of Pusey, Berks., 1868-89; author, Some Account of St. Mary’s Home for Penitents at Wantage, 1852, and other works; m. 6 Oct 1857 Dora, dau. of William Watkins, Badby, Northants; d. 4 Mar 1908.

VINCENT, THOMAS, second son of Rev. John Vincent, Rector of Sedgefield, co. Durham, Puritan sympathiser; bapt. All Saints, Hertford 18 May 1634 (IGI); adm.; recorded by Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, 1691, 463, to have been “educated partly in grammar learning in Westminster-school, and partly in that at Felsted, in Essex”; Canoneer Student, Christ Church, Oxford 29 Sep 1648 (date of admission by Parliamentary Visitors) to resignation 1660, Catechist 1654, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1; BA 16 Mar 1651/2; MA 1654 (incorp. Cambridge 1656); Chaplain to Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester; Rector of St. Mary Magdalene, Milk Street, London 15 Jul 1657 - Sep 1662, when ejected under Act of Uniformity; preached constantly in London parish churches during the plague year of 1665; officiated at Hoxton, Middlesex, and assisted Thomas Doolittle in his school at Bunhill Fields; imprisoned for nonconformity; licensed as Presbyterian preacher, Hand Alley, Bishopsgate Street, London 2 Apr 1672; author, God’s Terrible Voice in the City by Plague and Fire, 1667, and other works; d. 15 Oct 1678. DNB.

VINCENT, RICHARD, son of John Vincent, Hampstead, Middlesex, brewer, and Sarah, eldest dau. of Richard Cowper, London; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1730; left 1736; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Apr 1736; adm. Inner Temple year 1735-6, called to bar 2 Jul 1742; of Castle Yard, Highgate, Middlesex; d. 7 Jan 1776 [Whitmore] (will proved PCC 9 Jan 1776, he of Inner Temple).

VINCENT, RICHARD, third son of Rev. George Vincent, Rector of Sheepy, Leics. (southern mediety), and Elizabeth, dau. of William Haly, Harborough, Leics.; bapt. Sheepy Magna, Leics., 21 Feb 1692 (IGI); adm.; QS (aged 15) 1708; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1713, adm. pens. 4 Jun 1713, aged 19, scholar 9 Apr 1714, matr. 1714; 1st in “ordo” 1716/7; BA 1716/7; MA 1720; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1719, Major Fellow 11 Jul 1720; ordained deacon 13 Mar 1719/20, priest 31 May 1724 (both London); Rector of Church Langton, Leics.; Rector of Castlecaulfield, co. Tyrone; Rector of Donaghmore, co. Tyrone; m. Ann Thomas; d. 1774.