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

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