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Sprat, Thomas, 1679-1720
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1679-1720
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SPRAT, THOMAS, only surviving son of Right Rev. Thomas Sprat DD, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, and Helen, eldest dau. of Devereux Wolseley, Ravenstone, Staffs.; b. 5 Apr 1679; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1692; Capt. of the School 1696; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1697, matr. 10 Jul 1697, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1697 – void 1707; BA 1701; MA 1704 (incorp. Cambridge 1715); adm. Middle Temple 13 Jun 1700; ordained; Prebendary and Archdeacon of Rochester from 4 Dec 1704; Vicar of Boxley, Kent, from 1704/5; Rector of Stone, Kent, from 1707; Prebendary of Winchester from 18 Nov 1712, and of Westminster from 29 Sep 1713; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); FRS 20 Mar 1711/2; Busby Trustee 19 Feb 1710/1; m. 9 Apr 1716 Frances, fourth dau. of John Horden (qv); d. 10 May 1720. Buried Westminster Abbey, monument in St. Nicholas’s Chapel.
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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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http://schoolgateway.westminster.org.uk/
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.