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George Rye

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George Rye was an English Anglican priest in the 18th century.[1]

Rye was born in Culworth, the son of George and Elizabeth Rye (nee Tipping). The elder George Rye was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn[2] and was appointed a “Gentleman of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber in ordinary” in 1672.[3]

George Rye was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and then was a Fellow of Oriel College, earning his B.A. in 1695, his M.A. in 1698, a B.D. in 1713-14 and his D.D. in 1715.[4] Rye published a copy of his sermon, "The Supremacy of the Crown, and the Power of the Church, Asserted and Adjusted. A sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford, at St Mary's, on Sunday Jan. 17. 1713/14"[5] and held livings at Adwell, Islip and Ickford. He was appointed Archdeacon of Oxford in 1724;[6] and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford as well as being appointed as a canon of Christ Church, Oxford in 1737, holding all three positions until his death on 4 July 1741. He was buried at Culworth.

References

  1. ^ "The Monthly chronicle, Volume 1" p19: London; Aaron Ward; 1728
  2. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Rye, George (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  3. ^ "An Inquiry into the Place and Quality of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber". 1829.
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Rye, George (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  5. ^ "B40371 | Eton Collections".
  6. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1996), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 8, pp. 84–85