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Thomas Secker (1693-1768). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922

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Thomas Secker (1693-1768). The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922 Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Bibliographic Record Hugh Chisholm, et al., eds.  The Reader’s Biographical Encyclopædia.  1922.
17,000 Articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th & 12th eds. Thomas Secker (1693–1768) Archbishop of Canterbury, born at Sibthorpe, Nottinghamshire. He studied medicine in London, Paris and Leiden, receiving his M.D. degree at Leiden in 1721. Having decided to take orders he graduated, by special letters from the chancellor, at Exeter College, Oxford, and was ordained in 1722. In 1724 he became rector of Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, resigning in 1727 on his appointment to the rectory of Ryton, Durham, and to a canonry of Durham. He became rector 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 connection 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.

1   His principal work was Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England (London, 1769). See also Literary Criticism.

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