TENISON, Thomas (1636-1715) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 29 Sept. 1636, 2nd but 1st surv. s. of John Tenison (1599-1671), rect. Topcroft, Norf., E. Carpenter, Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, 3-5. and Mercy, da. of Thomas Dowsing of Cottenham. educ. Norwich Free Sch.; Corpus Christi, Camb. matric. 1653, BA 1657, MA 1660, ord. 1660, CUL, EDR B/2/58: CCED. fell. 1662, BD 1667, DD 1680; incorp. Oxf. 1664. m. Dec. 1667, Anne (d.1714), da. of Richard Love DD, master of Corpus Christi, Camb. and chap. to Charles I. d.s.p. d. 14 Dec. 1715; will 11 Apr. – 2 Dec. 1715, pr. 23 Jan. 1716. TNA, PROB 11/550.

Offices Held

Chap. to Charles II 1676 – 85, to James II 1685 – 88, to William and Mary 1688 – 91.

Chap. to Edward Montagu, 2nd earl of Manchester, c. 1660; rect. Bracon Ash, Norf. 1660 – 62, Holywell, Hunts. 1667 – 81, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 1680 – 92, St James Piccadilly 1686 – 92; cur. St Andrew-the-Great, Cambridge 1662–7; CUL, EDR B/2/58: CCEd. minister St Peter Mancroft, Norwich 1671 – 78; adn. London 1689 – 91.

PC 1695 – 1715; lord justice 1695 – 1702, 1714.

Commr. Irish Church 1690, CSP Dom. 1690–1, p. 158. ecclesiastical preferments 1695, 1699, CSP Dom. 1695 p. 326; CSP Dom. 1699–1700, p. 276. Greenwich Hospital 1695, 1703, CSP Dom. 1695, pp. 73, 346; CSP Dom. 1703–4, p. 462. completion of St Paul’s 1702, CSP Dom. 1702–3, p. 313. Anglo-Scottish union 1702, CSP Dom. 1702–3, p. 489. 50 new churches 1711–d.; Commissions for Building 50 New Churches ed. M.H. Port (London Rec. Soc. xxiii), pp. xxxiv-xxxv. founder mbr. and pres. SPG 1701; CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 358; Bodl. Ballard 7, f. 100. gov. Charterhouse 1695. G.S. Davies, Charterhouse in London, 355.

Parlimentarian

TENISON, Thomas (1636-1715)

Likenesses

engraving by P. Vanderbanck, after M. Beale, 1695, NPG D20240.

Author

Adams, Beverly

Handley, Stuart

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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