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Facts and Events
An extensive article on his life and funeral can be found in The Gentleman's Magazine, December 1842.
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 Obituary of Rev. Thomas Waite References
- Church of England. Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and Ancestry.com (comp.). England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 [database]. (Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2013)
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Wife Eliza is sole executrix.
- Member of Queen's college, Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1801, as 12th Senior Optime, M. A. 1807, LL.D. 1814.
Appointed chaplain to H.R.H. the Dutchess of Brunswick, and in 1812 to H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, later to H.R.H. Princess Sophia Matilda.
- Son of John Waite of Wisbech, Cambridge.
- Letter written by Fred May, St. Elenors, P.E.I., 15 Sep 1930 -
The following is apparently the account or brief history of his Father and Mother, written by our late uncle, Thomas Waite May, on the occasion of the unveiling of the Memorial Window in St. Paul's Church, Charlottetown, P.E.I., which window was proveded for by the Will of our late Aunt, Harriet May.
Augusta May, the second person of this Memorial Window, was the fourth daughter of the Revd. Thomas Waite, D.C.L. at one time assistant minister in Greenwich, at St. Alphedge Church, afterward Rector of High Halden in the County of Kent, England, and finally Rector of Great Chart, also in Kent, where he died in 1842.
Dr. Waite was a man of considerable ability and learning and was the personal friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and was the Chaplain of His Royal Highness, the Duke of Gloucester, one of the sons of George the Third.
Dr. Waite married Eliza Hamilton Clark, a daughter of Captain James Hamilton Clark of the Royal Navy in 1802, by whom he had four daughters and four sons. His fourth daughter and seventh child, Augusta Waite, the second subject of this Memorial, was born in Greenwich in 1812. Her Godmother was Her Royal Highness Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick. The only surviving son of Dr. Waite in 1817 was named Paul, his Godmother was Her Royal Highness, the Princess Sophia Matilda, and his Godfathers the Honorable Right Revd. Edward, Lord Bishop of Oxford and Captain Edward Sneyd Clay of the Royal Navy.
The friendship of all these great people seems to have been obtained by Dr. Waite's own personal influence, for he was the son of a small proprietor in Lincolnshire. When be became the Rector of Great Chart, his wife became ambitious and wanted heraldic honours.
A search was made among the records and in the Herald's office, when it was found that the family Coat of Arms had been reversed at the time of the Restoration of King Charles the Second. Dr. Waite's direct ancestor, a Colonel Thomas Waite, was one of Cromwell's officers.
Dr. Waite was evidently a learned man, for he published a series of Sermons on the Thirty Nine Articles, which, I believe, became for a time the standard work on the subject.
Augusta Waite, the wife of Robert May, was the favorite daughter of Dr. Waite and evidently inherited many of his great qualities, for she had the highest ideals and possessed great moral courage to carry them out, and well deserves the Memorial which her daughter had erected to her memory.
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