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Authorised form of namePearce; Zachary (1690 - 1774)
Other forms of nameZachariah
Other forms of surname'Zachary Bangor'
'Zachary Rochester'
Dates1690 - 1774
Place of birthParish of St Giles's, High Holborn, London, England
Date of birth08 September 1690
Place of deathLittle Ealing, Middlesex
Date of death29 June 1774
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
By the side of his wife, Bromley, Kent
OccupationClergyman, Church of England
ActivityEducation:
School at Great Ealing, Middlesex; Westminster School; Trinity College, Cambridge; BA (1714), MA (1717); DD (Lambeth)
Career:
Fellow of Trinity (1716); ordained deacon (1717), priest (1718); Chaplain to the Lord Chancellor Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (FRS 1712); Rector of Stapleford Abbots, Essex (1719-1722); Rector of St Bartholomew, Royal Exchange (1720-1724); Chaplain to the King (1721-1739); Rector of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster (1724-1756); Dean of Winchester (1739); Bishop of Bangor (1748-1756); Dean of Westminster (1756-1768); Bishop of Rochester (1756-1774)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/06/1720
ProposerJames Pound
William Stukeley
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1721
RelationshipsSon of Thomas or John Pearce, Distiller, of Holborn and Little Ealing, Middlesex; married Mary, daughter of Benjamin Adams, Distiller, of Holborn
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Venn
References:
Gentleman's Magazine 1774, p333, 1777, p19 (Autobiographical memoir)
London Magazine 1774, p356; 1777, p 149 (Memoir)
CodeNA7582
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RBO/19/35'An Account of Monsieur Fourmont's Book intitled: Reflections critiques sur les histories des anciens peuples etc' by Zachary Pearce1735
IM/003467Pearce, Zacharynd
CLP/22ii/77Paper, Account of Matthew Bel's 'Notitia Hungariae novae Historico-Geographica etc [Notice of the new historical-geographic Hungary]' by Zachary Pearce[1735]
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