Arthur Ashley Sykes

(1684 c.-1756)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sykes, Arthur Ashley, 1683 or 4-1756 NRA: Sykes, Arthur Ashley (1684-1756), rector of Raleigh, and author DNB: Sykes, Arthur Ashley (c.1684–1756), Church of England clergyman and religious controversialist LBT ID: ArSykes1756 VIAF ID: 100277651 LOC ID: n85067393	B/BAP: 1684 DIED: 1756-11-23
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at St Paul's School and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; he was rector of Rayleigh, Essex (1718-56) and engaged in controversy with William Warburton.
REFERENCES TO Arthur Ashley Sykes: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. XVIII. 1789 Found 1: ¶ 26