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Benjamin Pye
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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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