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THOMAS BRAY (1656-1730)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 438 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS BRAY (1656-1730)  ,
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English divine, was born at Marton, Shropshire, in 1656, and educated at All Souls' College, Oxford . After leaving the university he was appointed vicar of Over-Whitacre, and rector of Sheldon in
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Warwickshire, where he wrote his famous Catechetical Lectures . Henry Compton, bishop of
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London, appointed him in 1696 as his commissary to orgrnize the
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Anglican church in
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Maryland, and he was in that colony in 1699-1700 . He took a
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great
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interest in colonial missions, especially among the
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American Indians, and it is to his exertions that the Society for the
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Propagation of the Gospel owes its existence . He also projected a successful scheme for establishing parish
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libraries in England and
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America, out of which grew the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge . From 1706 till his
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death in
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February 1730 he was rector of St Botolph-Without, Aldgate, London, being unceasingly engaged in philanthropic and
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literary pursuits .

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