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| | The Thomas Gray Archive : Materials : Glossary : Personal names |
 | | He was born in 1716, the same year as Gray and West, and entered Eton about the same time, but was apparently somewhat their senior. |
 | | In Jan. 1733 he was admitted as a Sizar at Clare Hall; Scholar, 1735; migrated to King's, 1735; B.A., 1737; M.A., 1740; ordained Deacon, 1744; Priest, 1745; Rector of Hornsey, 1749-51; of Bletchley, 1753-67; Vicar (non-resident) of Burnham, Bucks, 1774-82. |
 | | West, however, had no ambition `to sit upon a bench', as he wrote to Gray in June 1740 (see Letter 89 [TGA letter id. 101]), and before the return of the latter he had left the Temple, and turned his thoughts to the army. |
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