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published tracts on biblical criticism as well as astronomical treatises
[D.N.B, and Thomas Stedman, Letters to and from the Reverend Philip
Doddridge (Shrewsbury, 1790), p. 145].
Mr Stretch: Liscombe Maulthe Stretch, who proved to be disappointing
to Seeker. He was ordained on April 19, 1762 and the following day
collated to Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey (L.P.L., Seeker Register
III, p. 304). Within a month (May 1762) he was "gone to be Curate at
Wokingham Surrey" and in December 1767 his living was "sequestrated
for a debt of £45 to Mr. Charpin merchant at Bristol" (L.P.L.
MS VG 2/5, p. 215). In 1780 he is described as M.A. and master of the
Academy at Twickenham on the title page of his The Beauties of History; or
Pictures of Virtue and Vice, drawn from Real Life, Designed for the Instruction
and Entertainment of Youth.
Mr Lamb: John Taylor Lamb (1727P-1774) of St. John's college,
Cambridge, who had been the target of a sharp letter from the
archbishop about providing a curate at Leysdown: "small Benefices
should not be given to people who cannot conveniently reside upon
them" (L.P.L. Seeker Papers, Vol. 3, fol. 222: Seeker to Lamb, 11
March, 1759).
Mr Lukyn was Anthony Lukyn, (1727P-1778) who was a graduate of
Christ Church, Oxford, and came from an established Kentish family.
To the living of Reculver had been annexed the vicarage of Hoath
(Foster, Alumni Oxon.).
Mrs Smythe of Arncott Manor, Cuddesdon, was much admired by
Catherine Talbot for her goodness [A Series of Letters between Mrs. E. Carter
and Miss C. Talbot from the year 1741 to 1770, ed. Montagu Pennington
(London, 1809), III, p. 22: C. Talbot to E. Carter, 9 October, 1762].
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Dr Hind: Richard Hind (1716-1790) of Christ Church, Oxford, who
had received his B.D. in 1745 and his D.D. in 1750. He was vicar of
Shering, Essex, in 1754 and of St. Anne's, Soho, and then vicar of
Rochdale, Lancashire 1778 and of Skipton-in-Craven (Foster, Alumni
Oxon.). He had published one sermon preached at Oxford in 1755 and
had been attacked in several publications by the curate of St. Anne's,
Thomas Martyn.
Sir Edward Turner (1719-1766) was one of the "New" or Whig
Interest candidates in the Oxfordshire election of 1754, and sat as M.R