Christopher Wyvill, D.D. was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 18th century. [1]
The seventh son of Sir Christopher Wyvill, 3rd Baronet, M.P. for Richmond, [2] he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. [3] He was ordained in 1678. He was a Canon of York from 1700 until his death in January 1710.
John Venn, FRS, FSA was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher noted for introducing Venn diagrams, which are used in logic, set theory, probability, statistics, and computer science. In 1866, Venn published The Logic of Chance, a ground-breaking book which espoused the frequency theory of probability, arguing that probability should be determined by how often something is forecast to occur as opposed to “educated” assumptions. Venn then further developed George Boole's theories in the 1881 work Symbolic Logic, where he highlighted what would become known as Venn diagrams.
Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) was an Anglican theologian. He is known as a Biblical exegete, and as a representative, with William Perkins and John Preston, of what has been called "main-line" Puritanism because he ever remained in the Church of England and worshiped according to the Book of Common Prayer.
Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet was Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1714 to 1715, discharging the duties of the office with conspicuous impartiality. His second marriage was the subject of much gossip as his wife eloped with his cousin Thomas Hervey and lived openly with him for the rest of her days. He is, however, perhaps best remembered as being one of the early editors of the works of William Shakespeare.
Christopher Wyvill (1740–1822) was an English cleric and landowner, a political reformer who inspired the formation of the Yorkshire Association movement in 1779.
Sir Christopher Wyvill, 3rd Baronet was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1660.
Sir John Ellys or Ellis (1634?–1716) was an English academic, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1703.
Sir William Earle Welby, 1st Baronet was a British land-owner, baronet and Member of Parliament for Grantham from 1802 to 1806. He also served as High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1796 to 1797.
Marmaduke Wyvill (1791–1872) was an English Whig politician.
Gamaliel Lloyd (1744–1817) was an English merchant and political reformer, a supporter of the Yorkshire Association.
Crinus Irwin was an Anglican priest in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, most notably Archdeacon of Ossory from 1822 until his death on 17 December 1859.
The Very Revd John Frankland was an 18th-century academic and Dean in the Church of England.
John Neile D.D. was an eminent Anglican priest in the second half of the 17th century.
Robert Lambert, D.D. was a priest and academic in the second half of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th centuries.
Richard Fisher BelwardD.D. FRS was an academic in England in the second half of the 18th century and the early years of the 19th. He was born Richard Fisher, adopting the name Belward in 1791.
William Buckenham was a 16th-century priest and academic.
Peter Stephen Godard, D.D. was Master of Clare College from 1762 until his death.
Humphrey Sumner, D.D. was an English Anglican priest and educationalist.
Edward Lany, FRS was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1707 until his death.
Thomas Browne, D.D. was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1694 until his death.
John Mickleburgh was an English chemist, and the third holder of the 1702 Chair of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge.
