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THOMAS SECKER (1693-1768)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 570 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:SECKER (1693-1768)  , See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, was See also:born at Sibthorpe, See also:Nottinghamshire . He studied See also:medicine in See also:London, See also:Paris and See also:Leiden, receiving his M.D. degree at Leiden in 1721 . Having decided to take orders he graduated, by See also:special letters from the See also:chancellor, at See also:Exeter See also:College, See also:Oxford, and was ordained in 1722 . In 1724 he became See also:rector of See also:Houghton-le-See also:Spring, See also:Durham, resigning in 1727 on his See also:appointment to the rectory of Ryton, Durham, and to a canonry of Durham . He became rector of St See also:James's, See also:Westminster, in 1733, and See also:bishop of See also:Bristol in 1735 . About this See also:time See also:George II. commissioned him to arrange a reconciliation between the See also:prince of See also:Wales and himself, but the See also:attempt was unsuccessful . In 1737 he was translated to Oxford, and he received the deanery of St See also:Paul's in 1750 . In 1758 he became archbishop of Canterbury . His advocacy of an See also:American episcopate, in connexion with which he wrote the See also:Answer to Dr See also:Mayhew's Observations on the See also:Charter and Conduct of the Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel in See also:Foreign Parts (London 1764), raised considerable opposition in See also:England and See also:America . His See also:principal See also:work was Lectures on the See also:Catechism of the See also:Church of England (London, 1769) .

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