Thomas Bray
English Anglican priest in colonial Maryland (died 1730)
Thomas Bray (1656 or 1658 – 15 February 1730) was an English clergyman and abolitionist who helped formally establish the Church of England in Maryland, as well as the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge and Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.2
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Born 1656, died Feb 15, 1730.1
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Early life and education
- Date not recordedOswestry School3
Early life
Thomas Bray was born in Marton, then in the parish of Chirbury, Shropshire, at a house today called Bray's Tenement, on Marton Crest, in 1656 or 1658, the year he was baptised on 2 May at Chirbury. Bray's parents, Richard and Mary Bray, were poor farmers. He was educated at Oswestry Grammar School and Oxford University, where he earned a B.A. degree with All Souls College in 1678 and a M.A. with Hart Hall in 1693. He also completed the work for B.D. and D.D. degrees at Oxford (Magdalen, 17 December 1696) at the request of Maryland's governor, but was unable to pay the required fees.
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Career
Occupation: cleric, Christian minister.6
- Date not recordedFounded Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge4
- Date not recordedFounded United Society Partners in the Gospel5
Personal life
Rev. Bray married firstly, in about 1685, Elenor (surname not known), who died in 1688 having borne a son and daughter, and secondly, on 3 November 1698, Agnes Sayers, of Clerkenwell, London, with whom he had four children who all died young.
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- 1WikidataThomas Bray on Wikidata
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- 10Wikimedia CommonsThomas Bray photo by Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain