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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Thomas Secker, Joseph Butler, William Thomson, George Coke, List of Bishops of Bristol, Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Bristol, Charles Ellicott, John Robinson, Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, Thomas Howell, Thomas Westfield, George Smalridge, George Forrest Browne, Joseph Allen, John Bullingham, Gilbert Ironside the elder, Thomas Newton, Paul Bush, Mike Hill, Robert Gray, Gilbert Ironside the younger, Hugh Boulter, Henry Holbeach, William Mansel, John Hall, Nicholas Felton, John Lake, Folliott Cornewall, Robert Skinner, John Kaye, Robert Wright, George Nickson, Henry Reginald Courtenay, Spencer Madan, Guy Carleton, Rowland Searchfield, John Thornborough, Oliver Tomkins, Thomas Gooch, Philip Yonge, Barry Rogerson, Frederick Cockin, John Conybeare, John Luxmoore, James Monk, John Holyman, George Pelham, John Tinsley, Clifford Woodward, William Gulston, Lewis Bagot, John Hume, William Bradshaw. Excerpt: Thomas Secker (1693 - 3 August 1768), Archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Sibthorpe, Nottinghamshire. In 1699, Secker went to Richard Brown's free school in Chesterfield, staying with his half-sister and her husband, Elizabeth and Richard Milnes. According to a story in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1768, Brown congratulated Secker for his successful studies by remarking, 'If thou wouldst but come over to the Church, I am sure thou wouldst be a bishop'. Under Brown's teaching, Secker believed that he had attained a competency in Greek and Latin. He attended Timothy Jollie's dissenting academy at Attercliffe from 1708, but was frustrated by Jollie's poor teaching, famously remarking that he lost his knowledge of languages and that 'only the old Philosophy of the Schools was taught there: and that neither ably nor diligently. The morals also of many of the young Men were bad. I spent my time there idly & ill'. He...
