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1757-64 and of London 1764-77. "A sensible and good tempered man/'
Seeker wrote to Samuel Johnson, "and personally liked by the King as
well as favoured by the Ministry. Therefore I hope he will both have
considerable influence, and use it well" [Thomas B. Chandler, Life of
Samuel Johnson (New York and London, 1824), pp. 197-98: 22 May,
1764]. Terrick would be a great improvement on his predecessor,
Richard Osbaldeston, who was, "poor man," as bishop of London,
"every way unequal to that station."
Dr Salter: Samuel Salter the younger (1710-1778), son of the archdeacon
of Norfolk (d. 1756), and fellow of Corpus Christi college,
Cambridge 1735-38. He was chaplain to Lord Hardwicke and tutor to
his son, Philip Yorke, and in 1744 married a distant relation of Seeker.
He was appointed preacher at Charterhouse in January 1754 and master
in 1761 [G.M., XXIV (1754), p. 48; Venn, Alumni Cantab.].
Dr Bearcroft: Philip Bearcroft (1695-1761), a fellow of Merton 1717
and well known in Oxford from the days of the old Constitution Club as
a Whig. He had been appointed preacher at Charterhouse in 1724 and
from 1735 was secretary to the S.P.G. (Ward, Georgian Oxford, pp. 89 &
100).
Duke of Bedford: John Russell (1710-1771), fourth duke who briefly
led the Whig faction known as the "Bloomsbury Gang." There are
notes of Bedford's objections on a copy of the bill with Seeker's answers
(L.P.L. Seeker Papers 7, fols. 288-91).
Mrs Lane (nee Elizabeth Blackwell) died on March 10, 1754 [G.M.,
XXIV (1754), p. 142; G.E.C., Complete Peerage gives the date March 9].
George Parker, second earl of Macclesfield, had married as his first wife,
Mary, daughter of Ralph Lane, a Turkey merchant.
Bishop of Rochester: Joseph Wilcocks (1673-1756), who had been
bishop of Gloucester 1721-31 and of Rochester 1731-56. The latter
bishopric was held with the deanery of Westminster 1731-56 (Foster,
Alumni Oxon.; D.N.B.).
John Frost was appointed to the rectory of Lillingstone-Lovell in March
1754 [G.M., XXIV (1754), p. 143].
Mr Greenhill: John Russell Greenhill (1730?-1814) of Trinity college,
Oxford, who obtained his D.C.L. in 1759. He was rector of Fringford,
Oxfordshire 1756-1814, where he was the second largest proprietor in
the parish, and of Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire 1779-1814 [Diana