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WILLIAM WAKE (1657-1737)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 248 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:WAKE (1657-1737)  , See also:English See also:archbishop, was See also:born at See also:Blandford, See also:Dorset, on the 26th of See also:January 1657, and educated at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford . He took orders, and in 1682 went to See also:Paris as See also:chaplain to the See also:ambassador See also:Richard See also:Graham, See also:Viscount See also:Preston (1648-1695) . Here he became acquainted with many of the savants of the See also:capital, and was much interested in See also:French clerical affairs . He also collated some Paris See also:manuscripts of the See also:Greek Testament for See also:John See also:Fell, See also:bishop of Oxford . He returned to See also:England in 1685; in 1688 he became preacher at See also:Gray's See also:Inn, and in 1689 he received a canonry of Christ Church, Oxford . In 1693 he was appointed See also:rector of St See also:James's, See also:Westminster . Ten years later he became See also:dean of See also:Exeter, and in 1705 he was consecrated bishop of See also:Lincoln . He was translated to the see of See also:Canterbury in 1716 on the See also:death of See also:Thomas See also:Tenison . During 1718 he negotiated with leading French churchmen about a projected See also:union of the Gallican and English churches to resist the claims of See also:Rome (see J . H . Lupton, Archbishop See also:Wake and the Project of Union, 1896) . In dealing with See also:nonconformity he was tolerant, and even advocated a revision of the See also:Prayer See also:Book if that would allay the scruples of dissenters .

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chief being his See also:State of the Church and See also:Clergy of England . . . historically deduced (See also:London, 1703) . He died at See also:Lambeth on the 24th of January 1736/7 . See also:Sir See also:Isaac Wake (c . 1580-1632), the diplomatist, was a kinsman of the archbishop . He commenced his See also:diplomatic career in See also:Venice, and then he represented his See also:county for sixteen years at See also:Turin; he was knighted in 1619, and after being sent on various See also:special See also:missions by James I. he was See also:British ambassador in Paris from 163o until his death in See also:June 1632 . Among Sir Isaac's writings is Rex platonicus, a description of the entertainment of James I. at Oxford in 1605; this was published in 1607 and has often been reprinted .

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