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15 February 1730 A.D.   Thomas Bray—Anglican Rector & Founder of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) Wiki-offering. The Reverend Dr Thomas Bray (1658 – 15 February 1730) was an English clergyman, who spent time in Maryland as an Anglican representative. Contents   1 Life 2 See also 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links Life He was born in Marton , near Chirbury , Shropshire, at a house today called Bray's Tenement (now owned by the Nicholls family), on Marton Crest, in 1658. [1] He was educated at Oswestry School and Oxford University , where he earned a B.A. degree with All Souls College and a M.A. with Hart Hall . After leaving the university he was appointed vicar of Over Whitacre , and Rector of St Giles Church' Sheldon in Warwickshire, where he wrote his Catechetical Lectures . Henry Compton , Bishop of London , appointed him in 1696 as his commissary to organise the Church of England in Marylan...

15 February 1730 A.D.   Thomas Bray—Anglican Rector & Founder of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) Graves, Dan. “Death of Thomas Bray, Who Did Much.”   Christianity.com.   May 2007.   http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1701-1800/death-of-thomas-bray-who-did-much-11630211.html . Accessed 15 Jul 2014.   Born in Shropshire, England, he trained at Oxford and became an Anglican rector. His life took a dramatic turn when Bishop Henry Compton of London received a letter from Maryland pleading for religious instruction. The bishop chose Thomas Bray to investigate religious conditions in the American colony.   Various complications kept Bray from sailing at once. He used the delays to enlist missionaries to travel with him. He soon found that the older, more established clergymen were not interested in transplanting to the colonies. Bray found that only young men, usually poor, were willing to venture fo...