John Tracy, 7th Viscount Tracy
The Viscount Tracy | |
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.jpg) John Tracy - Warden of All Souls College | |
| Born | 18 August 1722 |
| Died | 2 February 1793 (aged 70) |
John Tracy, 7th Viscount Tracy (18 August 1722 – 2 February 1793) was a British peer and academic, who served as Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.
Family and Title
[edit]Tracy was the third son of Thomas Charles Tracy, 5th Viscount Tracy, and the first son by his second wife Frances Pakington, daughter of Sir John Pakington Bt MP.[1]
Viscount Tracy is the title given to Rathcoole in the County of Dublin, a title in the Peerage of Ireland. However, the Tracy family is English, with its seat at Toddington, Gloucestershire.
Tracy succeeded to the viscountcy on the death of his half-brother Thomas Charles Tracy, 6th Viscount Tracy in 1792, and on his death in 1793 was followed by his brother Henry Leigh Tracy, 8th Viscount Tracy.[1]
Education and career
[edit]He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon (now Abingdon School) from 1732 to 1741.[2]
He matriculated at University College, Oxford in 1741, graduating B.A. 1745, M.A. 1749 (at All Souls), B.D. 1757, D.D. 1761.[3]
Tracy was university proctor in 1755,[3] and was elected Warden of All Souls College, Oxford in 1766,[4] remaining Warden until his death.[3] He was for one year vicar of Farnborough (1768–69).
He was a Steward of the Old Abingdonian Club in 1745.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Tracy, Viscount (I, 1643 - 1797)". Cracroft's Peerage.
- ^ Preston, Arthur Edwin (1929). St.Nicholas Abingdon and Other Papers, pre isbn. Oxford University Press. p. 361.
- ^ a b c Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Hinde/St John Parker, Thomas/Michael (1977). The Martlet and the Griffen. James and James Publishers Ltd. pp. 56/59. ISBN 0-907-383-777.
- ^ "Stewards of the OA Club". Abingdon School. Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2018-10-13.