Thomas Powys

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Thomas Powys (1747–1809) was an Anglican clergyman of the later 18th century.

He was the son of Philip Powys, of Hardwick House, Oxfordshire. He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford in 1753; B.A. in 1757, and M.A. in 1760. He was rector of Fawley, Buckinghamshire, and of Silchester, Hampshire. In 1769 he was made a Prebendary of Hereford, and in 1779 was promoted to the Deanery of Bristol. In 1795 he took the degree of B.D. and D.D., and in the following year was appointed Canon of Windsor which he resigned on his appointment as Dean of Canterbury in 1797. He died at Canterbury on 7 October 1809, and was buried in the Lady Chapel of the Cathedral on the same day, according to the Cathedral Register.^[1]

References

↑ Meadows Cowper, Lives of the Deans of Canterbury, 1541-1900, (Canterbury: 1900) p.206-7.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Folliott Cornewall	Dean of Canterbury 1797–1809	Succeeded by Gerard Andrewes

v t e Deans of Canterbury

Early modern	Nicholas Wotton Thomas Godwin Richard Rogers Thomas Nevile Charles Fotherby John Boys Isaac Bargrave George Aglionby Thomas Turner John Tillotson John Sharp George Hooper George Stanhope Elias Sydall John Lynch William Freind John Potter Brownlow North John Moore The Hon James Cornwallis George Horne William Buller Folliott Cornewall

Late modern	Thomas Powys Gerrard Andrewes Hugh Percy Richard Bagot William Lyall Henry Alford Robert Payne Smith Frederic Farrar Henry Wace George Bell Dick Sheppard Hewlett Johnson Ian White-Thomson Victor de Waal John Simpson Robert Willis

Persondata
Name	Powys, Thomas
Alternative names
Short description	Dean of Canterbury
Date of birth	1747
Place of birth
Date of death	1809
Place of death

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