John Thane (priest)

John Thayne or Thane was an English churchman, Archdeacon of Chester in 1707.[1]

Life

Thane's father was a physician at Lynne, and his mother was a sister of John Pearson.[2] He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge[3] and incorporated at Oxford in 1682.[4] He held livings at Kirby Underdale and Northenden. He was appointed a Canon of Chester Cathedral in 1686 and Archdeacon of Chester from 1707, holding both positions until his death on 30 June 1727. He is buried at the cathedral.[5]

On Pearson's death, the bulk of his books and papers went to Thane. Thane acted as editor for his works on chronography.[6] He wrote to Thomas Barlow in 1686, the year of Pearson's death, going over plans to publish Pearson's works.[7] He edited Pearson's Opera Postuma Chronologica.[8]

References
  1. "Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum" p522: London; King George; 1808
  2. Pearson, John (1844). The Minor Theological Works: Now First Collected, with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Index (in Latin). University Press. p. xcvii note z.
  3. "John Thayne (THN670J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Tabbe-Thomyow
  5. "History of the city of Chester, from its foundation to the present time : with an account of its antiquities, curiosities, local customs, and peculiar immunities ; and a concise political history" Hemingway, J Chester' J. Fletcher; 1831 p326
  6. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester. Chetham Society. 1889. p. 562.
  7. Hampton, Stephen (29 May 2008). Anti-Arminians: The Anglican Reformed Tradition from Charles II to George I. OUP Oxford. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-19-155985-3.
  8. Biographia Britannica: Or, The Lives of the Most Eminent Persons who Have Flourished in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times. W. Innys. 1760. p. 3311.
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