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Tenison, Thomas
Male 1636 - 1715  (79 years)



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  • Name Tenison, Thomas 
    Birth 29 Sep 1636  [1] 
    • His father was curate at Cottenham
    Gender Male 
    Dated Note Abt 1653  [1] 
    • Went up to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; graduating in 1657. Studied Medecine but really wanted to be in the church
    Dated Note Abt 1660  [1] 
    • Chaplain to Edward, second Earl of Manchester
    Dated Note Abt 1662  [1] 
    • Presented with the living of St Andrew the Great, Cambridge
    Dated Note Abt 1665  [1] 
    • Stayed in Cambridge during the plague to minister in his college and parish
    Dated Note Abt 1667  [1] 
    • Became Bachelor of Divinity
    Dated Note From 1667 to 1681  [2] 
    • Rector: appointed by Edward, second Earl of Manchester - DD Bishop of Lincoln, etc
    Dated Note Abt 1672  [1] 
    • Became Chaplain-in-Ordinary to the King
    Dated Note 18 Oct 1678  Holywell cum Needingworth, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • by an indenture, he gave to trustees ½ acre of land together with the cottages thereon, the rents to be applied for the benefit of the poor and for church expenses
    Dated Note 18 Oct 1678  [4] 
    • conveyance of a cottage in Needingworth for the maintenance of the poor one year, and repairing of the church another year, and so on by turns for ever
    Dated Note Abt 1680  [1] 
    • Became Doctor of Divinity
    Dated Note 08 Oct 1680  [1] 
    • was nominated to the living of St Martins in the Fields, London - John Evelyn and Nell Gwynn, Duke of Monmouth etc heard him there
    Dated Note Abt 1681  Holywell cum Needingworth, Cambridgeshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • (Had advowson and) Appointed John Knighton to Holywell
    Dated Note 15 Jul 1685  [1] 
    • was present at execution of Duke of Monmouth, having been asked to see Duke, but refused communion as no confession
    Dated Note Abt 1690  [5] 
    • was favourable to the revolution and to the liberal minded Prince of Orange
    Dated Note Abt 1692  [1] 
    • Served as Bishop of Lincoln 1692-4
    Dated Note Abt Dec 1694  [1] 
    • Served as Archbishop of Canterbury till his death in 1715
    Dated Note 17 May 1709  [4] 
    • In a Terrier :- A cottage and half-an-acre of ground in Needingworth, with four cow commons, given for ye maintenance of ye poor one year, and ye reparation of ye church another year, and so by turns for ever.
    Death 14 Dec 1715  [1] 
    Person ID P7970 

    Family Love, Anne,   b. Abt 1633   d. 1714 (Age 81 years) 
    Marriage 1667  [6] 
    Family ID F1503  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Rector of Holywell-cum-Needingworth; D.D., Bishop of Lincoln 1692-5. Archbishop of Canterbury 1695-1715 .

  • Sources 
    1. [S66] Joe Newell, Holywell and Needingworth, 26/27 (27), D01658. (Reliability: 2).

    2. [S167] Holywell-cum-Needingworth Parish Church, Printed list of Rectors, 1216-1914, HP44/2/4. (Reliability: 2).

    3. [S168] Parishes in Victoria County History, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42477. (Reliability: 2).

    4. [S179] (Known but not public).

    5. [S375] Robert Walker Dixon, A Century of Village Nonconformity at Bluntisham, 1787-1887, 073 (Reliability: 2).

    6. [S220] Stow-Tytler, The Dictionary of National Biography (Reliability: 2).


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