The following biographies of clerics who have served at St James the Great, Thorley, have been extracted from Alumni Oxonienses : The Members of the University of Oxford 1500-1886, compiled by Joseph Foster and published in eight volumes.
Thomas Chamber
B.A. 15 July 1520, one of these names rector of Thorley, Herts, 1528, etc. See
Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.
Edmund Brycote (Bricotte)
Minorite ; B.D. 28 June, 1526, D.D. 18 July 1530, canon of St Paul's 1554-65,
rector of Thorley, Herts, 1545, of Willey or Weeley, Essex, 1547-8, and of Much
Hadham 1548, died in 1562. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus & Fasti, i.
83.
Robert Pory
S. Robert; B.A. from CHRIST'S COLL., Cambridge,
1628-9, M.A. 1632, B.D. 1639, D.D. per Literas Regias 2 Aug., 1660, incorporated
10 July, 1663, chaplain to Dr. Juxon, archbishop of Canterbury, archdeacon of
Middlesex 1660, rector of St. Margarets, New Fish Street, London, 1640, and
of Thorley, Herts, 1640, until ejected, restored 1660; licenced 21 Sept., 1640,
to marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Juxon, of Chichester; canon residentiary
of St. Paul's 1660, and canon of Chichester 1660, rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate,
1660-2, of Hollingbourn, Kent, 1661, of Much Hadham, Herts, 1662, and of Lambeth
1662; died 22 Nov., 1668. See Lansdowne MS. 986, f. 122 ; Foster's Index
Eccl.; London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster; Fasti, ii. 267; & St. Paul's S.
R. 34.
Thomas Turner
S. Thomas, S.T.D. and dean of Canterbury. HART HALL, matric. 10 May, 1662, aged
16; scholar CORPUS CHRISTI Coll. 1663. B.A. 15 March. 1665-6, M.A. 1669, fellow
1672, B.D. 1677, D.D. 1681, president of his college 1687-1714; incorporated
at Cambridge 1690; perhaps admitted to Gray's Inn 1671, and vicar of Milton
next Sittingboume, Kent, 1672-95; rector of Thorley, Herts., 1680-9, and of
Fulham. Middlesex, 1688, archdeacon of Essex 1680, canon of Ely 1686, canon
1682, and chantor of St Paul's 1690, until he died 29 or 30 April, 1714 ; buried
in the college chapel, will at Oxford, proved 18 Oct. 1715: brother of William
1662. See Ath. iv. 619 ; Fasti, ii. 387; Rawl, ii. 28 ; Gulch, i. 404 ; Lansdowne
MS. 987, f. 362; & Foster's Index Eccl.
Thomas Beaumont
Arm. NEW COLL., matric. 15 June, 1657; B.A.
1660, M.A. 1664, incorp. at Cambridge 1669 (son of Sir Thomas, of Stoughton
Grange, baronet), vicar of Sawbridgeworth, Herts, 1673, and of Great Dunmow,
Essex, 1678, canon of St. Paul's 1681, rector of Thorley, Herts, 1690, died
at Great Dunmow 15 Jan., 1710, aged 71. See Foster's Index.
William Gibson
S. Edmund, Bishop of London. CHRIST CHURCH, matric. 15 Oct., 1733, aged 16 ;
B.A. 1737, M.A. 1740, B. & D.D. 1751, brother of Edward 1730, George 1733,
and of Robert 1739.
John Cronkshaw
S. Leonard, of Hawlings, co. Lancaster, pleb. BRASENOSE COLL., matric, 11 April
1729, aged 18 ; B.A. 1742, M.A. 1759.
Samuel Horsley
Of TRINITY COLL., Cambridge, LL.B. 1758, s. John, of St. Martin's, Westminster,
cler. Incorp. from CHRIST CHURCH 13 Nov., 1767, aged 34; D.C.L. 18 Jan., 1774,
rector of St. Mary, Newington, Surrey, until 1782, of Thorley, Hens, 1777, of
South Weald, Essex, 1782-93, and of Albury, Suffolk, prebendary of Gloucester,
bishop of St. David's 1788-93, of Rochester 1793-1802, of St. Asaph's 1802,
until his death 4 Oct., 1806.
Thomas Henry Lowth
Born at Chilbolton, Hants. s. Robert, bishop of Oxford. CHRIST CHURCH, matric.
14 Jan., 1772, aged 18: gold medalist for Latin verse, Winchester, 1770, fellow
of New Coll., preb. of Chichester 1778.
Stephen Eaton
S. Daniel of Dean, co. Southampton, gent. MERTON COLL., matric. 28 March 1757,
aged 19; B.A. 1760, M.A. 1763, archdeacon of Middlesex and rector of St. Anne's,
Soho, died unmarried.
Joseph Warton
S. Thomas of London, cler. ORIEL COLL. matric. 16 Jan. 1739-40, aged 17; B.A.
13 March, 1743-4, M.A. (by diploma) 23 June 1759, B. & D.D. from NEW COLL.,
1768, curate of Chelsea, rector of Tunworth, head-master at Winchester 1766-93,
vicar of Shalfield, Wilts, 1768, preb. of Winchester 1788, rector of Thorley,
Herts. 1782, of Easton 1788, of Upham 1792, and of Wickham, Hants, where he
died 23 Feb. 1800. See Gent.'s Mag., 1800, i. 287.
Edward Harbin
S. John, of Hunton, Kent, cler. MAGDALEN HALL., matric. 13 Feb., 1790, aged
21 ; vicar of Takeley, Essex, 1804, until his death 21 Jan., 1837.
John Mathias Procter
2s. Edward of Macclesfield, Cheshire, arm. TRINITY COLL., matric 12 June 1854,
aged 18, B.A. 1858: fellow JESUS COLL. 1859-65, M.A. 1861, vicar of Barkingside
and Aldborough Hatch, Essex, 1864-78, rector of Laindon, Essex, 1878-83, hon.
Canon St. Alban's, 1882, rector of Thorley, Herts, 1883.
John Edward Ingleby Procter
1s. John M. of Aldborough Hatch, Essex, cler. NEW COLL. matric. 16 Jan. 1885,
aged 19.