NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Seaton, Thomas, 1684-1741 DNB: Seaton, Thomas (1684–1741), Church of England clergyman and religious writer LBT ID: ThSeato1741 VIAF ID: 29961456 LOC ID: n84127884 | B/BAP: 1684-10-02 DIED: 1741-08-18 |
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Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, he was vicar of Ravenstone, Buckinghamshire; he
willed his estate to Cambridge to fund the Seatonian prize for the best poem in English on
the attributes of the supreme being. | |
REFERENCES TO Thomas Seaton: Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 29 August 1824 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1:
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