WAKE, William (1657-1737) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 26 Jan. 1657, s. of Col. William Wake (1628-1705), roy. army officer and Amie, da. of Edward Cutler. educ. Blandford Free Sch.; Christ Church, Oxf., matric. 1673, BA 1676, MA 1679, ord. deacon 1681, priest 1682; BD and DD 1689. m. 1 Oct. 1688, Etheldreda (d.1731), 3rd da. and coh. of Sir William Hovell^‡, of Hillington Hall, Norf.; 3s. d.v.p., 8da. (1 d.v.p.). LPL, ms 1770 (Wake diary), f. 58r; Christ Church Lib. Wake mss 23/225. suc. fa. 29 May 1705. Vis. London 1687 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xvii), 526. d. 24 Jan. 1737; will 12 Feb. – 18 Dec. 1732, pr. 1 Mar. 1737. TNA, PROB 11/682.

Offices Held

R. chap. 1689 – 1706; dep. clerk of the closet 1689; ld. almoner Nov. 1715 – Mar. 1716.

Lecturer, St Martin’s Carfax, Oxf. 1682, St Anne’s Soho, Westminster, 1688; chap., to Richard Graham‡, Visct. Preston [S], Paris 1682 – 85; preacher, Gray’s Inn 1688 – 96; canon, Christ Church Oxf. 1689 – 1702, Exeter 1703; rect. St James Piccadilly, Westminster 1695; dean, Exeter 1701 – 05.

Sec. Lambeth commn. on liturgy 1688; commr. building 50 new churches 1715–d.; The Commissions for Building Fifty New Churches ed. Port (London Rec. Soc. xxiii), pp. xxxv-vi. lord justice 1719, 1720, 1723, 1725.

Gov. Charterhouse 1716. G.S. Davies, Charterhouse in London, 355.

Parlimentarian

WAKE, William (1657-1737)

Associated with: Shapwick, Dorset.

Likenesses

oil on canvas by T. Gibson, c.1715–20, Christ Church, Oxford; oil on canvas by T. Hill, c.1720–5, NPG 22.

Author

Adams, Beverly

Handley, Stuart

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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