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THOMAS TENISON (1636-1715)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 618 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:TENISON (1636-1715)  , See also:English See also:archbishop, was See also:born at See also:Cottenham, See also:Cambridgeshire, on the 29th of See also:September 1636 . He was educated at the See also:free school, See also:Norwich, whence he entered Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Cambridge, as a See also:scholar on Archbishop See also:Parker's See also:foundation . He graduated in 16J7, and was chosen See also:fellow in 1659 . For a See also:short See also:time he studied See also:medicine, but in 1659 was privately ordained . As See also:vicar of St Andrewthe-See also:Great, Cambridge, he was conspicuous for his devoted See also:attention to the sufferers from the See also:plague . In 1667 he was presented to the living of See also:Holywell-cum-Needingworth, See also:Huntingdonshire, by the See also:earl of See also:Manchester, to whose son he had been See also:tutor, and in 167o to that of St See also:Peter's Mancroft, Norwich . In 168o he received the degree of D.D., and was presented by See also:Charles II. to the important cure of St See also:Martin's-in-the-See also:Fields . See also:Tenison, according to See also:Gilbert See also:Burnet, " endowed See also:schools, set up a public library, and kept many curates to assist him in his indefatigable labours." Being a strenuous opponent of the See also:Church of See also:Rome, and " See also:Whitehall lying within that See also:parish, he stood as in the front of the See also:battle all See also:King See also:James's reign." In 1678, in a Discourse of See also:Idolatry, he had endeavoured to fasten the practices of heathenish idolatry on the Church of Rome, and in a See also:sermon which he published in 1681 on Discretion in Giving See also:Alms was attacked by See also:Andrew Pulton, See also:head of the See also:Jesuits in the See also:Savoy . Tenison's reputation as an enemy of Romanism led the See also:duke of See also:Monmouth to send for him before his See also:execution in 1685, when Bishops See also:Ken and See also:Turner refused to administer the See also:Eucharist; but, although Tenison spoke to him in " a softer and less See also:peremptory manner " than the two bishops, he was, like them, not satisfied with the sufficiency of Monmouth's penitence . Under See also:William III., Tenison was in 1689 named a member of the ecclesiastical See also:commission appointed to prepare matters towards a reconciliation of the Dissenters, the revision of the See also:liturgy being specially entrusted to him . A sermon which he preached on the commission was published the same See also:year . He preached a funeral sermon on Nell See also:Gwyn (d .

1687) in which he represented her as truly penitent—a charitable See also:

judgment which did not meet with universal approval . The See also:general liberality of Tenison's religious views commended him to the royal favour, and, after being made See also:bishop of See also:Lincoln in 169r, he was promoted to the primacy in See also:December 1694 . He attended See also:Queen See also:Mary during her last illness and preached her funeral sermon in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey . When William in 1695 went to take command of the See also:army in the See also:Netherlands, Tenison was appointed one of the seven lords justices to whom his authority was delegated . Along with Burnet he attended the king on his See also:death-See also:bed . He crowned Queen See also:Anne, but during her reign was not in much favour at See also:court . He was a See also:commissioner for the See also:Union with See also:Scotland in 1706 . A strong supporter of the Hanoverian See also:succession, he was one of the three See also:officers of See also:state to whom on the death of Anne was entrusted the See also:duty of appointing a See also:regent till the arrival of See also:George I., whom he crowned on the 31st of See also:October 1714 . Tenison died at See also:London on the 14th of December 1715 . Besides the sermons and tracts above mentioned, and various others on the " Popish " controversy, Tenison was the author of The Creed of Mr See also:Hobbes Examined (1670) and Baconia, or Certain Genuine Remains of See also:Lord See also:Bacon (1679) . He was one of the founders of the Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel . The See also:Memoirs of the See also:Life and Times of the Most Rev .

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Father in See also:God, Dr See also:Thomas Tenison, See also:late Archbishop of See also:Canterbury, appeared without date not See also:long after his death . See also Gilbert Burnet's See also:History of his own Time and See also:Macaulay's History of See also:England .

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