Drake, Thomas (1769-1820)

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Adm. pens. (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, Mar. 29, 1764. S. of George, druggist, of Yorks. B. [Nov. 14, 1745], at Halifax. School, Winchester. ' Matric. Michs. 1764; Scholar; B.A. 1768; M.A. 1771; B.D. 1779; D.D. 1784. Fellow, 1769. Ord. deacon and priest (Winchester) 1769. R. of St Endellion, Cornwall, 1774-7. V. of Maker, 1776-85. Acted as private tutor to Richard, afterwards second Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, and accompanied him on Continental tours, 1782 and 1783. R. of Mersham, Kent, 1784-6. R. of Little Hormead, Herts. R. of Hadleigh, Suffolk, 1786-90. Joint Commissary of the Deanery of Bocking, 1786. Joint Registrary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1787. V. of Rochdale, Lancs., 1790. Helped Whitaker in his History of Whalley. Married, Aug. 25, 1788, Eleanora, dau. of Robert Dobyns Yate. Died Sept. 12, 1819, aged 74, at Rochdale. Buried there. M.I. Father of Richard H. (1811). (Fishwick, History of the Parish of Rochdale, where there is an account of his family; St John's Coll. Adm., III. 167; Cant. Act Bk.; F.M.G., III. 1161.)

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