D’Oyly, Samuel, 1681-1748

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D’Oyly, Samuel, 1681-1748

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        1681-1748

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        D’OYLY, SAMUEL, only son of Charles D’Oyly, Westminster, and Martha ---; bapt. St. Margaret’s, Westminster 24 Nov 1681; adm.; BB 1691; KS (Capt. ) 1697; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1700, adm. pens. 5 Jun 1700, scholar 2 May 1701, matr. 1703; BA 1703/4; MA 1707; Minor Fellow, Trin. Coll., 2 Oct 1706, Major Fellow 25 Apr 1707, Tutor 1707; ordained; Vicar of St. Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, from Nov 1710; was “of such uncommon corpulence that he was prevented attending his duty as army chaplain in Flanders in the war of 1741 for no horse, it is stated, could carry him” (Bayley, History of the D’Oyly Family, 1845, 160); author, Christian Eloquence in Theory and Practice, made English from the French original, 1718, and joint translator with John Colston of Calmet’s Dictionnaire de la Bible, 1732; m. Frances ---; buried Rochester Cathedral 9 May 1748. DNB.

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        GB-2014-WSA-05724

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        Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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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.

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