Benjamin Pye

Benjamin Pye LL.D. (1726 - 1808) was Archdeacon of Durham from 1791 to 1808.[1]

Pye was educated at New College, Oxford.[2] He was Rector of Whitburn from 1769 to 1791.[3] He married (and was the second husband of) Elizabeth Bathurst-Sleigh 3rd daughter of Mary, who in turn was the second child of Charles Bathurst, MP for Richmond 1727.[4]

According to (Sir) Cuthbert Sharp in his The Bishoprick Garland[5] Benjamin Pye wrote the second “Stockton's Commendation”.[6]

He died on 26 March 1808.[7]

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References

  1. National Archives
  2. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886 Foster, J (Ed) Volume 3 p1165; Oxford and London: Parker and Co,1888-1891
  3. "British history online".
  4. History of the commoners of England and Ireland Volume II BY John Burke 1835.
  5. The Bishoprick Garland page 63
  6. Words
  7. 'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland, &c. (Lancaster, England), Saturday, April 02, 1808; Issue 355
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