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Thomas, John, 1712-1793
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1712-1793
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Thomas, John; Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster. Son of Rev.John Thomas, Vicar of Brampton, Cumberland, and Minor Canon of Carlisle, and Ann, dau. of Richard Kelsick, Whitehaven, Cumberland, ship’s captain ; bapt. 7 Oct 1712 ; educ. Carlisle GS and Queen’s Coll.Oxford, matr. 17 Dec 1730 ; BCL 1741 ; DCL 1742 ; ordained deacon 27 Mar 1736/7, priest 25 Sep 1737 ; tutor to son of Sir William Clayton, Bart., MP ; Rector of Bletchingley, Surrey 27 Jan 1737/8 – 1774 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II 17 Jan.1748/9 and to George III 1760 ; Prebendary of Westminster 23 Apr 1754 – Jul 1768, Sub-Dean 1758 ; Sub-Almoner 28 Dec 1761 ; Vicar of St.Bride’s, Fleet Street, London 7 Jan 1766-9 ; Dean of Westminster from 19 Jul 1768 ; consecrated Bishop of Rochester 13 Nov 1774 ; m.1st, 19 Aug 1742 Anne, widow of Sir Charles Blackwell, Bart., and dau. of Sir William Clayton, Bart., MP ; m.2nd, 12 Jan.1775 Elizabeth, widow of Sir Joseph Yates Kt, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and dau. of Charles Baldwyn, Munslow, Shropshire ; d. 22 Aug 1793. ODNB.
In 1791 he invested £1000 Stock in the names of the Deans of Westminster and of Christ Church, Oxford, and the Head Master, in trust for the School. The fund was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by four exhibitions known as Bishop Thomas exhibitions.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2022
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.