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THOMAS SPRAT ( 1635-1713)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 736 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:SPRAT ( 1635-1713)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Beaminster, See also:Dorsetshire, and educated at Wadham See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he held a fellowship (1657-1670) . Having taken orders he became a See also:prebendary of See also:Lincoln in 166o . In the pre-ceding See also:year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned See also:Prince See also:Oliver, See also:Lord See also:Protector (See also:London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and See also:man of letters . His See also:chief See also:prose See also:works are the Observations upon See also:Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into See also:England (London, 1665), a satirical reply to the strictures on Englishmen in See also:Samuel de Sorbiere's See also:book of that name, and a See also:History of the Royal Society of London (London, 1667), which See also:Sprat had helped to found . In 1669 he became See also:canon of See also:Westminster, and in 1670 See also:rector of Uffington, See also:Lincolnshire . He was See also:chaplain to See also:Charles II. in 1676, See also:curate and lecturer at St See also:Margaret's, Westminster, in 1679, canon of See also:Windsor in 1681, See also:dean of Westminster in 1683 and See also:bishop of See also:Rochester in 1684 . He was a member of See also:James II.'s ecclesiastical See also:commission, and in 1688 he read the See also:Declaration of See also:Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster See also:Abbey . Although he opposed the See also:motion of 1689 declaring the See also:throne vacant, he assisted at the See also:coronation of See also:William and See also:Mary . As dean of Westminster he directed See also:Wren's restoration of the abbey . He died on the loth of May 1713 .

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