 Abt 1622 - 1691 (~ 69 years)
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| Name |
Pierce, Thomas |
| Born |
Abt 1622 |
Of Devizes, Wiltshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
28 Mar 1691 |
North Tidworth, Wiltshire, England |
| Person ID |
I06751 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
12 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Pierce, John, b. Abt 1585, Of Devizes, Wiltshire, England , d. 02.1641/42, Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
| Mother |
Northey, Mary, c. 28.02.1596/97, Devizes, Wiltshire, England , d. Bef 1633, Of Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
| Married |
30 Jun 1613 |
Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
| Family ID |
F01613 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Had one surviving son Robert.
Listed in Oxford University Alumni as Thomas Pierce, son of John of Devizes. Matriculated in 1638 aged 16 years.
Possibilities?
Will of Thomas Pierce, Doctor in Divinity and Dean of North Tidworth, Wiltshire 05 October 1691 PROB 11/406
Is this Thomas pierce the following??
He was the son of John Pierce or Peirse, a woollen-draper and mayor of Devizes . He was appointed chorister of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1633, while receiving an education in Magdalen College School under. William White, for whom in 1662 he obtained preferment. On 7 December 1638 he matriculated at the college, and in 1639 he became a demy . He graduated B.A. on 4 December 1641, and M. A. on 21 June 1644, noted as a poet and musician...On 4 May 1675 Pierce was admitted and installed as dean of Salisbury. He quarrelled with his chapter, and its members appealed to the archbishop..... his only surviving son, Robert Pierce, was denied a prebendal stall in the cathedral.
The dean had purchased an estate in the parish of North Tidworth, a few miles north of Amesbury in Wiltshire. He died there on 28 March 1691, and was buried in the churchyard of Tidworth. At his funeral there was given to every mourner a copy of his book entitled 'Death considered as a Door to a Life of Glory [anon.] Printed for the Author's private use,' n.d. [1690 ?] His grave represented a small stone banquetting house; an inscription, made by himself a little before his death, was engraved on a brass plate fastened to the roof of the church. Pierce's wife Susanna died in June 1696, and was also buried in the churchyard of North Tidworth. Robert, his son, became rector of North Tidworth in 1680, and through the favour of Anne , then princess of Denmark, was appointed prebendary of Chardstock in Salisbury Cathedral in 1689. He retained both these preferments until his death in 1707.
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