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BRAY, THOMAS (1656-1730)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 438 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRAY, THOMAS (1656-1730) , English divine, was born at Marton, Shropshire, in 1656, and educated at All Souls' College, Oxford. After leaving the university he was appointed
vicar
  of Over-Whitacre, and
rector
  of Sheldon in Warwickshire, where he wrote his famous Catechetical Lectures.
Henry
  Compton, bishop of London, appointed him in 1696 as his commissary to orgrnize the Anglican church in
Maryland
 , and he was in that colony in 1699-1700. He took a
great
 
interest
  in colonial missions, especially among the American Indians, and it is to his exertions that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel owes its existence. He also projected a successful
scheme
  for establishing parish libraries in England and America, out of which grew the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. From 1706 till his death in February 1730 he was
rector
  of St Botolph-Without, Aldgate, London, being unceasingly engaged in philanthropic and literary pursuits.


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