Matthias D'Oyly
Matthias D'Oyly or D'Oyley (23 November 1743 – 13 November 1815)[1][2] was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1806 until 1815.[3]
The eldest son of Thomas D'Oyley, prebendary of Ely Cathedral, he was educated at Westminster School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1766 he was elected Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He became vicar of Pevensey in 1767, and rector of Buxted in Surrey.[1][4][5]
His son Sir John D'Oyly, 1st Baronet, of Kandy became Auditor General of Ceylon.
References
- ^ a b "D'Oyly or D'Oyley, Matthias (DLY761M)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Andrew Kippis; William Godwin (1816). The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year ... G. Robinson, Pater-noster-Row. p. 143.
- ^ ”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists:Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy,G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900
- ^ Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County. Sussex Archaeological Society. 1848. p. 22.
- ^ John Nichols (1815). Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century. p. 583.
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