WAKE, WILLIAM (1657-1737)

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WAKE, WILLIAM (1657-1737) , English archbishop, was born at Blandford, Dorset, on the 26th of January 1657, and educated
at Christ Church, Oxford. He took orders, and in 1682 went to Paris as chaplain to the

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

Richard Graham, Viscount Preston (1648-1695). Here he became acquainted with many of
the savants of the

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

, and was much interested in French clerical affairs. He also collated some Paris manuscripts of the Greek Testament for John Fell, bishop of Oxford. He returned to England in 1685; in 1688 he became preacher at Gray's Inn, and in 1689 he received a canonry of Christ Church, Oxford. In 1693 he was appointed

rector

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

of St James's, Westminster. Ten years later he became dean of

Exeter

EXETER
EXETER, EARL, MARQUESS AND DUKE OF

, and in 1705 he was consecrated bishop of Lincoln. He was translated to the see of Canterbury in 1716 on the death of

Thomas

Tenison. During 1718 he negotiated with leading French churchmen about a projected union of the Gallican and English churches to resist the claims of Rome (see J. H. Lupton, Archbishop

Wake

and the Project of Union, 1896). In dealing with

nonconformity

NONCONFORMITY, LAW RELATING TO

he was tolerant, and even advocated a revision of the Prayer Book if that would allay the scruples of dissenters. His writings are numerous, the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

being his State of the Church and Clergy of England . . . historically deduced (London, 1703). He died at Lambeth on the 24th of January 1736/7.
Sir Isaac

Wake

(c. 1580-1632), the diplomatist, was a kinsman of the archbishop. He commenced his diplomatic career in Venice, and then he represented his county for sixteen years at Turin; he was knighted in 1619, and after being sent on various

special

SPECIAL

missions by James I. he was British

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

in Paris from 163o until his death in 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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