William Wake Archbishop of Canterbury 1725 Christ Church Oxford

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William Wake 1725. Bronze 42mm by J.Dassier. William Wake (26 January 1657 – 24 January 1737) was a priest in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1716 until his death in 1737. Wake was born in Blandford Forum , Dorset , and educated at Christ Church, Oxford . He took orders, and in 1682 went to Paris as chaplain to the ambassador Richard Graham, Viscount Preston (1648–1695). Here he became acquainted with many of the savants of the capital, and was much interested in French clerical affairs. He also collated some Paris manuscripts of the Greek New Testament for John Fell , bishop of Oxford . He returned to England in 1685; in 1688 he became preacher at Gray's Inn , and in 1689 he received a canonry of Christ Church, Oxford . In 1693 he was appointed rector of St James's, Westminster . Ten years later he became Dean of Exeter , and in 1705 he was consecrated bishop of Lincoln . He was translated to the see of Canterbury in 1716 on the death of Thomas Tenison . Tenison had been his mentor, and was responsible for his obtaining his bishopric, despite the notable reluctance of Queen Anne , who regarded the appointment of bishops as her prerogative and distrusted Tenison's judgment. During 1718 he negotiated with leading French churchmen about a projected union of the Gallican and English churches to resist the read more

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