Nicholas Greaves
Nicholas Greaves, D.D. (1605?–1673) was an English churchman who was Dean of Dromore cathedral, County Down.[1][2][3]
Life
He was the second son of John Greaves, rector of
(Church of Ireland)
He studied as a
On 1 November 1642 he took his
He was the rector of the valuable living of Welwyn, Hertfordshire (the advowson of All Souls' College), from 1651 until he was deprived of it by the Act of Uniformity 1662.[12][13] This act only applied to the Church of England, so his position within the Church of Ireland was not affected. His successor at Welwyn was Gabriel Towerson.
When his brother John Greaves died in 1652, Nicholas was the
After Bishop Buckworth died (also in 1652), the diocese of Dromore remained vacant until the
Greaves became the Treasurer of the Chapter of Lisburn Cathedral in 1668.[17] Lisburn, like so many other places in Ulster, was burned down in 1641, and its replacement was constituted as the cathedral church of the newly created Church of Ireland diocese of Down and Connor.
Greaves probably died in 1673.[18]
See also
References
- Citations
- ^ Nicholas Greaves was possibly born around 1605; he was the second son, born between 1602 (his eldest bro, John) and 1608 (his next bro Edward); Thomas was the youngest, born in 1612.
- ^ a b c Atkinson, E.D., R.S.A.I. (1911). Dromore An Ulster Diocese, p. 62. Greaves' tenure lasted until 1673, probably his death.
- ^ a b Cooper 1861, p. 117.
- ^ Chalmers 1814, p. 233.
- ^ Ward 1740, p. 152.
- ^ The Historical Register of The University of Oxford completed to the end of Trinity Term 1888. Part 1, p.33. Oxford: The Clarendon Press (1888) retrieved 12 May 2011
- ^ Davies, Rosalind. "Tullylish Parish". Co. Down family history research site. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Along with Aghaderg and Magheradrool. Atkinson (1911), p. 19
- ^ McMahon, Fr. Andrew. "The Parish of Dromore". The diocese of Dromore past and present. Retrieved 16 May 2011.
- ^ Ware 1739, p. 265.
- ^ T. D. Atkinson, et al. 'Wisbech: Subsidiary manors', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 4, City of Ely; Ely, N. and S. Witchford and Wisbech Hundreds, ed. R. B. Pugh (London, 2002), pp. 246-247. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ^ Calamy 1802, p. 315.
- ^ à Wood, Anthony (1820). Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops, &c., Volume 4. (London), p. 583. (in Latin).
- ^ Abstracts of probate acts in the Prerogative court of Canterbury (Volume 6). Will proved 19th? October 1652. Thomas Greaves was probably an executor as well, the source shows both Dean of Dromore and Rector of Dunsby, Lincs., Thomas Greaves' living.
- ^ Inventory no. 42223, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
- ^ Francis Babington and Henry Babington v Nicholas Greaves DD: money matters, Oxfordshire. National Archives, C 10/19/15. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
- ^ Carmody, W.P. Rev. (1926). "Ch.4". Lisburn Cathedral and its past rectors. Belfast: R. Carswell. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ The new dean of Dromore, William Smith, was presented on 23 April 1673, the same year as the new rector of Tullylish.
- Sources
- Calamy, Edmund (1802). Palmer, Samuel (ed.). The nonconformist's memorial: being an account of the lives, sufferings, and printed works, of the two thousand ministers ejected from the Church of England, chiefly by the Act of uniformity, Aug. 24, 1666, Volume 2 (2nd ed.). Button and Son, and T. Hurst.
- Chalmers, Alexander, ed. (1814). The General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 16. Printed for J. Nichols (and 35 others). p. 233.
- Cooper, Charles (1861). Memorials of Cambridge, Vol. II. Cambridge: Macmillan.
- Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College, to which is prefixed the Life of the Founder, Sir Thomas Gresham. London: John Moore.
- Ware, James (1739). The Whole Works of Sir James Ware concerning Ireland. Revised and Improved, Vol. 1. Dublin: E. Jones.