Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Secker, Thomas

by Joseph Foster

Secker, Thomas, s. Thomas, of Sibthorpe, Notts, gent. Exeter Coll., matric. 1 April, 1721, aged 20; B.A. (by decree) 6 July, 1721, M.A. 4 Feb., 1723-4, D.C.L. 1733, D.Med. University of Leyden, preb. of Durham 1727, rector of St. James's, Westminster, 1733, bishop of Bristol, 1735-7, of Oxford 1737-58, canon and dean of St. Paul's 1750, archbishop of Canterbury 1758, until his death 3 Aug., 1768.