Thomas Vyner (priest)
Thomas Vyner DD (1629 - 11 April 1673) was a Church of England minister and Dean of Gloucester
Family
[edit]He was the son of William Vyner of Eathorpe, Warwickshire[1] and younger brother of Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet.[2] He obtained his BA at Catherine Hall, Cambridge in 1650.[1] He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Izod(d. 1650), rector of Stanton, Gloucestershire.[3] In 1652 he succeeded his father-in-law as rector of Stanton and three years later was incorporated at the University of Oxford.[1] He was subsequently awarded a BD in 1662 and became DD in 1671 by letters patent from the king.[1]
He died in 1673 aged 44, and was buried in the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral.[4] He left a son Thomas (d. 1706), who inherited the Gautby estate of his uncle Sir Robert Vyner, and 2 daughters: Elizabeth married John Snell of Salisbury Hall, Hertfordshire and Honor married Thomas Leigh, merchant of London, brother of Sir Francis Leigh.[5][6]
Clement Barksdale, dedicated his translation of Hugo Grotius to Sir Robert Vyner in 1675 in remembrance of Vyner, referring to 'his learned, generous, and obliging Converse'.[7]
Career
[edit]He was appointed:
- Rector of Stanton, Gloucestershire, 1652[1] - c. 1665[8]
- Rural Dean of Campden[8]
- Rector of Paulersbury, Northamptonshire 1660 - 1663[8]
- Prebendary of the second stall, Gloucester Cathedral, 1665 - 1671 [9]
- Rector of Bradwell by Sea, Essex, 1667 - 1673[4]
- Canon of the 9th stall, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1670 - 1673[10]
- Archdeacon of Gloucester 1671 - 1673[8]
- Dean of Gloucester Cathedral 1671 - 1673[11]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714:Vachell-Vyner". British History Online. Retrieved 8 November 2024.
- ^ Vyner, Charles James (1885). Vyner, Family History. p. 45.
- ^ Vyner 1885, p. 53.
- ^ a b Vyner 1885, p. 54.
- ^ Vyner 1885, pp. 53–4.
- ^ Visitation of England and Wales, Notes. Vol. 1. 1896. p. 31.
- ^ Eward, Suzanne (1985). No Fine but a Glass of Wine. p. 244.
- ^ a b c d Alumni cantabrigienses to 1751. Vol. 4. 1927. p. 305.
- ^ Eward 1985, p. 334.
- ^ Ollard, S. L. (May 1950). Fasti Wyndesorienses. Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
- ^ Eward 1985, p. 333.