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

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