Rt. Rev.

Right Reverend

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 Samuel Peploe (bap.

Baptism

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 29 July 1667 – 21 February 1752) was Bishop of Chester

Bishop of Chester

The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York.The diocese expands across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the City of Chester where the seat is located at the Cathedral...

 from 1726 to 1752.

Life

Samuel Peploe was born the son of Podmore Peploe (ca. 1641 - 1714) and was baptized at Dawley Parva, Shropshire

Shropshire

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. He had three brothers, Jonathan, Nathan and Paul, and was educated at Penkridge

Penkridge

Penkridge is a market town and ancient parish in Staffordshire, England with a population of 7,836 . Many locals refer to it as a village, although it has a long history as an ecclesiastical and commercial centre. Its main distinction in the Middle Ages was as the site of an important collegiate...

 School, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

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. He then matriculated

Matriculation

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 at Jesus College

Jesus College, Oxford

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, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, Oxford

Oxford

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, Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

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, on 12 May 1687, where he graduated and obtained his Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 degree on 12 March 1690 and his Master of Arts degree on 19 October 1693.

After being ordained

Ordination

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, he became rector

Rector

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 of Kedleston

Kedleston

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, Derbyshire

Derbyshire

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, in 1695 and vicar

Vicar

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 of Preston, Lancashire

Lancashire

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, in 1700. Meanwhile, around 6 June 1699 he married his first wife, Anne Browne, daughter of Thomas Browne of Shredicote (died 1728) and Mary Carr (died 1689) and paternal granddaughter of George Browne of Shredicote (died 1652) and Anne Skyrmshire (died 1691), in turn daughter of Sir Thomas Skyrmshire (1576 - 1632) and Anne Sneyd, granddaughter of Thomas Skyrmshire of Aqualate, Staffordshire

Staffordshire

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 (died 1594) and Alice Starkey, and great-granddaughter of John Skyrmshire of Norbury

Norbury, Cheshire

Norbury is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 190.-External links:...

, Cheshire

Cheshire

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 (died 1569), and Dorothy Talbot

Gilbert Talbot (soldier)

Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, KG was an English Tudor knight, a younger son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and 2nd Earl of Waterford, and Elizabeth Butler.-Life:...

. With her he had four children: Elizabeth Peploe, married in 1736 to John Bradshaw; Rev.

The Reverend

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 Samuel Peploe (1700 - 1781), who married Elizabeth Birch and had one son and Rebecca Roberts; Mary Peploe (1701 - 1772), wife of Francis Joddrell (died 1765); and Anne Peploe (1702 - 1769), wife of James Bayley of Withington

Withington, Herefordshire

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, Herefordshire

Herefordshire

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 (1705 - 1769) and whose daughter Elizabeth Bayley married Sir John Parker Mosley, 1st Baronet, of Ancoats

Sir Oswald Mosley, 2nd Baronet, of Ancoats

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. On 8 January 1712 he married secondly Anne Birch, who died in 1758.

He gained a reputation as an outspoken enemy of the local Roman Catholic inhabitants, who were in the majority. In November 1715, when Jacobite

Jacobitism

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 forces came to Preston, Peploe is said to have preached a brave sermon urging support for King George I

George I of Great Britain

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, who had become king the previous year. His sermons on the dangers of popery also brought him wider attention, and in 1717 he was nominated as the warden of Manchester collegiate church

Manchester Cathedral

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; however, Francis Gastrell

Francis Gastrell

Francis Gastrell was bishop of Chester and a writer on deism. He was a friend of Jonathan Swift, mentioned several times in A Journal to Stella, and chaplain to Robert Harley, when Harley was speaker of the House of Commons.-Life:...

, the Bishop of Chester

Bishop of Chester

The Bishop of Chester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chester in the Province of York.The diocese expands across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the City of Chester where the seat is located at the Cathedral...

, refused to sanction the appointment on the basis that Peploe's Lambeth degree

Lambeth degree

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 of Bachelor of Divinity

Bachelor of Divinity

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 was not a valid qualification. It took many years of litigation before it was ruled that Lambeth degrees, which are awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury

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, were of equal status with university degrees. For that reason he returned to Jesus College and obtained his Bachelor of Divinity

Bachelor of Divinity

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 degree on 10 March 1718.

Gastrell died in 1725 and Peploe, supported by Edmund Gibson

Edmund Gibson

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 (Bishop of London

Bishop of London

The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 458 km² of 17 boroughs of Greater London north of the River Thames and a small part of the County of Surrey...

) and the Duke of Newcastle

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, KG, PC was a British Whig statesman, whose official life extended throughout the Whig supremacy of the 18th century. He is commonly known as the Duke of Newcastle.A protégé of Sir Robert Walpole, he served...

, was appointed. He was consecrated on 12 April 1726 and allowed to continue to hold his Manchester wardenship (which he held until he made way for his son in 1738), although he had to resign his position in Preston. He died on 21 February 1752 with last will

Will (law)

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 dated 24 April 1749 and was buried in Chester Cathedral

Chester Cathedral

Chester Cathedral is the mother church of the Church of England Diocese of Chester, and is located in the city of Chester, Cheshire, England. The cathedral, formerly St Werburgh's abbey church of a Benedictine monastery, is dedicated to Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary...

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