SECKER, THOMAS (1693-1768)

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SECKER, THOMAS (1693-1768) , archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Sibthorpe,

Nottinghamshire

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, or NOTTS

. He studied

medicine

MEDICINE

in London, Paris and Leiden, receiving his M.D. degree at Leiden in 1721. Having decided to take orders he graduated, by

special

SPECIAL

letters from the

chancellor

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

, at

Exeter

EXETER
EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

College,

Oxford

, and was ordained in 1722. In 1724 he became

rector

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, "
rule
- RULE
")

of Houghton-le-

Spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

, Durham, resigning in 1727 on his appointment to the rectory of Ryton, Durham, and to a canonry of Durham. He became

rector

RECTOR (Lat. for " ruler," " guide," &c., from regere, "
rule
- RULE
")

of St James's, Westminster, in 1733, and bishop of Bristol in 1735. About this time George II. commissioned him to arrange a reconciliation between the prince of Wales and himself, but the attempt was unsuccessful. In 1737 he was translated to

Oxford

, and he received the deanery of St Paul's in 1750. In 1758 he became archbishop of Canterbury. His advocacy of an American episcopate, in connexion with which he wrote the Answer to Dr Mayhew's Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (London 1764), raised considerable opposition in England and America.
His principal

work

WORK

was Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England (London, 1769).

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