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The Autobiography of Archbishop Thomas Seeker
Mr Sellon: Walter Sellon, a clergyman who published Remarks upon
certain Passages in a work entitled cAn Illustration of Holy Scriptures 3 in 1765.
This was a reply to a three volume work by Robert Goadby (d. 1778), a
printer and bookseller of Sherborne, Dorset, who was known for his
"liberal and rational principles" (Nichols, Literary Anecdotes, III, pp.
723-26).
Mr Patten: Thomas Patten (1684-1764), described by Seeker as "half
mad, impudent, poor" (L.P.L. MS VG 2/5, p. 270) and who died on 9
October, 1764, aged 80 [GM., XXXIV (1764), p. 498]. He had been
vicar of Seasalter since 1711 and perpetual curate of Whit stable. He is
not to be confused with Dr. Thomas Patten, fellow of Corpus Christi
college, Oxford, and rector of Childrey, Berkshire.
Mr Waterhouse: Benjamin Waterhouse (d. 1790), an M.A. of University
college, Oxford, and the son of a Kentish clergyman. In July 1766
Seeker appointed him vicar of Westwell, Kent.
Vestry Clerk of St James's is not identified by name either in Seeker's
accounts where the gift to his family is corroborated or in the vestry
minutes of the parish.
Building a chapel: St. Michael's was built as a chapel of ease and was
dependent on the mother church of Lambeth, St. Mary's.
Henry Talbot's daughter: Elizabeth Talbot, of St. George's, Hanover
Square, who married Captain Thomas Cornwall of St. James's, Westminster
on 9 May, 1765 (Lambeth Palace Register). Cornwall had been
commissioned lieutenant in 1749 and captain in 1757 [Admiralty,
Commissioned Sea Officers of the Royal Navy (Greenwich, 1954), I, p. 199].
The widow of Edward Talbot (Seeker's friend) died at Cornwall's house,
Chart Place, Surrey, on 29 January, 1784 [GM., LIV (1784), p. 151].
my nephew John Frost died as rector of Bishopsbourne on 29 April,
1765.
my sister: Abigail-Anna Frost, born Seeker.
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Mr Peters: Richard Peters (c. 1704-1776), son of Ralph Peters, a
barrister of Liverpool. He was educated at Westminster school, where
he entered into a clandestine marriage with a servant girl, for which
reason his parents removed him to Leyden to continue his education.