Thomas Vyner (priest)

Thomas Vyner DD (1629 - 11 April 1673) was a Church of England minister and Dean of Gloucester

Family

He was the son of William Vyner of Eathorpe, Warwickshire^[1] and younger brother of Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet.^[2] He obtained his BA at Catherine Hall, Cambridge in 1650.^[1] He married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Izod(d. 1650), rector of Stanton, Gloucestershire.^[3] In 1652 he succeeded his father-in-law as rector of Stanton and three years later was incorporated at the University of Oxford.^[1] He was subsequently awarded a BD in 1662 and became DD in 1671 by letters patent from the king.^[1]

He died in 1673 aged 44, and was buried in the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral.^[4] He left a son Thomas (d. 1706), who inherited the Gautby estate of his uncle Sir Robert Vyner, and 2 daughters: Elizabeth married John Snell of Salisbury Hall, Hertfordshire and Honor married Thomas Leigh, merchant of London, brother of Sir Francis Leigh.^[5][6]

Clement Barksdale, dedicated his translation of Hugo Grotius to Sir Robert Vyner in 1675 in remembrance of Vyner, referring to 'his learned, generous, and obliging Converse'.^[7]

Career

He was appointed:

• Rector of Stanton, Gloucestershire, 1652^[1] - c. 1665^[8]
• Rural Dean of Campden^[8]
• Rector of Paulersbury, Northamptonshire 1660 - 1663^[8]
• Prebendary of the second stall, Gloucester Cathedral, 1665 - 1671 ^[9]
• Rector of Bradwell by Sea, Essex, 1667 - 1673^[4]
• Canon of the 9th stall, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1670 - 1673^[10]
• Archdeacon of Gloucester 1671 - 1673^[8]
• Dean of Gloucester Cathedral 1671 - 1673^[11]