George Rye

George Rye was an English Anglican priest in the 18th century.^[1]

Rye was born in Culworth, the son of George and Elizabeth Rye (nee Tipping). The elder George Rye was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn^[2] and was appointed a “Gentleman of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber in ordinary” in 1672.^[3]

George Rye was educated at Wadham College, Oxford,^[4] and Oriel College, Oxford, earning his B.A. in 1695, his M.A. in 1698, a B.D. in 1713-14 and his D.D. in 1715.^[5] Rye published a copy of his sermon, "The Supremacy of the Crown, and the Power of the Church, Asserted and Adjusted. A sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford, at St Mary's, on Sunday Jan. 17. 1713/14"^[6] and held livings at Adwell, Islip and Ickford. He was appointed Archdeacon of Oxford in 1724;^[7] and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford as well as being appointed as a canon of Christ Church, Oxford in 1737, holding all three positions until his death on 4 July 1741. He was buried at Culworth.

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