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Sharpe, Gregory, 1713-1771
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1713-1771
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SHARPE, GREGORY, son of William Sharpe, Beak Street, Westminster, Clerk of the Cheque, and Margaret, dau. of Charles Beake, Golden Square, Westminster; b. 1713; adm. from Hull GS Jan 1728/9; left 1731, having “committted some irregularity” (DNB); Aberdeen Univ.; MA [check]; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 2 Jun 1735, readm. 8 Jun 1747, matr. 1735; LLB 1738; LLD 1747 (incorp. Oxford 4 Jul 1751); ordained deacon (Bristol) 26 Dec 1737, priest (Gloucester) 20 Jan 1738/9; Rector of Folkington, Sussex 2 Feb 1738/9-44; Rector of West Dean, Sussex 8 Feb 1738/9-44; Vicar of Birling, Kent 26 Mar 1744-56; Vicar of Kensing cum Seal, Kent 13 Apr 1744-61; Perpetual Curate, Broadway Chapel, Westminster; Vicar of Purton, Wilts., from 27 Aug 1761; Chaplain in Ordinary to George III from 1762; Master of the Temple from 7 Dec 1763; Prebendary of Salisbury from 1 Feb 1767; FSA 4 Apr 1754; FRS 9 May 1754; a good classical scholar; his library was sold 8 Apr 1771 and ten following days; author, A Dissertation on the Latin Tongue, 1751, and other works; d. 8 Jan 1771. DNB.
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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, 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.