Can you help Rev. Dr. Thomas Washbourne of British Isles Royals and Aristocrats 1500-Present. Collab.PRoW

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The British Isles Royals and Aristocrats 1500-Present Project and the Collaborative Profile of the Week Present:

Rev. Dr. Thomas Washbourne

You can't tell from his empty profile, but he was a poet. Let's see what we can do to improve his profile.

Did he marry and have children?

What's a prebendary? See his death place.

Perhaps a short sample of his poetry. What sort of poems did he write?

Where did he preach? (Assuming he did.)

What categories can we add to his profile?

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Thomas falls into the class of British Gentry: persons with elevated social status; often called ladies and gentlemen; without titles or coats of arms.

Thank you

 

 

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I've added the Marriage info found in the Intro to the Poems, added the British Isles badge, removed the Unsourced badge, edited the nickname and suffix ... I'm looking for more...

Answer 1

"Prebendary" is:

A prebendary is a senior member of clergy, normally supported by the revenues from an estate or parish. The holder of the post is connected to an Anglican or Roman Catholic cathedral or collegiate church. The position is a type of canon who has a role in the administration of a cathedral.
Prebendary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prebendary

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I don't often come across words that I have no clue about. I'm sure there are lots of other "folk" who didn't know what a prebendary was either.

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Nor me!

I have edited the death data to reflect Alumni detail

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I didn't know what Prebendary was when I created the profile either, just that it was included in my notes from Ancestry and I remember thinking it was probably a house or section of the church. Thanks for clarifying.

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I looked up his career record on the CCed data base.It doesn't add much  more except for dates. of induction etc.

http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayPerson.jsp?PersonID=159933

I did find that another  family member becomes a prebendary of Gloucester a little later.

Washborne, William  http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayPerson.jsp?PersonID=167263

Foster: 7th son of John of Wickenford, Worcs., arm., BALLIOL matric. 15 June 1632 aged 15; BA 22 Apr. 1634; fellow ORIEL 1636; MA 2 July 1639; student of Grays Inn 1638; V of St Mary's, Oxford 1656; canon of Gloucester 1669 until his death 28 Nov. 1675; will & admon. at Oxford 4 Dec. 1675; see Burrows 537 & Foster Ind. Eccles

 Can I ask why he's called  'Canon of Gloucester'  in his 'title' though? (it did  rather remind me of Beatrix Potter) When someone is a canon of so and so cathedral then you would  write to them as The Reverend Canon or The Reverend Prebendary but only whilst they have that appointment.  This gentleman being a DD would be The Revd CanonThomas Washbourne DD or the Rev.Prebendary Thomas Washbourne DD (well at least that's the formal way today)   https://www.churchofengland.org/contact-us/addressingtheclergy.aspx )

 Would you put that 'title' for other canons in C of E.?( My husband has a couple of very close direct ancestors who were canons for part of their careers and I  really wouldn't have though to do so but they definitely weren't aristocrats either! )

Answer 2

Take a look at Oxford Alumni:

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=oxfordalum&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=Thomas&gsln=Washbourne&MSAV=0&uidh=i24&pcat=37&fh=0&h=241684&recoff=6+7&ml_rpos=1

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Thank you Ron, That's a "foreign" Ancestry link (I only have US ancestry) Is the information somewhere else on the web? Is it long? Can you summarize and add it to the profile with a source citation?

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I have extracted the Alumni and added it to the profile. Oxford Alumni is available on the web, but I have not been able to access the details for Thomas other than by way of Ancestry.

The entry includes award of B.D   - Bachelor of Divinity & D.D  - Doctor of Divinity. Perhaps the profile should clarify.

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Thanks Ron that's great. His profile looks better already.

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Just noticed this and have answered below but here is a reference for his DD

 http://db.theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/DisplayPerson.jsp?PersonID=159933

click the little comments section and you get the same bio as in the Oxford Alumni book

Answer 3

I'm going to add a link to the collection of his poems on Google Books and upload the cover page as an image for his profile.

https://books.google.com/books?id=Lf1cAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=Rev.+Dr.+Thomas+Washbourne

It looks like there's a lot of biographical and genealogical info in the introduction, but I don't have time to go through it. Maybe somebody else can?

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Thank you Chris

Answer 4

I added British History Online (source), image (coat of arms for Washbourne), text and footnotes.

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That looks nice April, Thank you.