Byles, Mather, D.D
Byles, Mather D.D.
a Congregational minister, was born in Boston, March 26, 1706, graduated at Harvard 1725, and was installed pastor of the Hollis Street church Dec. 20, 1733. He was made D.D. at Aberdeen 1765. He was a Tory in politics, and was therefore dismissed from his charge in 1776. He spent the remainder of his days in private life, and died July 5, 1788. Dr. Byles was distinguished for literary taste and exuberant wit. He published a Poem on the Death of George I and the Accession of George II (1727): an Elegy on the Death of Hon. Daniel Oliver (1732): a Poetical Epistle to Gov. Belcher on the Death of his Lady (1736): a Poem on the Death of the Queen (1738): Poems: The Conflagration, The God of Tempest and Earthquake (1744); and a number of essays and occasional sermons. Sprague, Annals, 1, 376.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Byles, Mather D.D. (2)
a Congregational minister, was born in Boston, March 26, 1706, graduated at Harvard 1725, and was installed pastor of the Hollis Street church Dec. 20, 1733. He was made D.D. at Aberdeen 1765. He was a Tory in politics, and was therefore dismissed from his charge in 1776. He spent the remainder of his days in private life, and died July 5, 1788. Dr. Byles was distinguished for literary taste and exuberant wit. He published a Poem on the Death of George I and the Accession of George II (1727): an Elegy on the Death of Hon. Daniel Oliver (1732): a Poetical Epistle to Gov. Belcher on the Death of his Lady (1736): a Poem on the Death of the Queen (1738): Poems: The Conflagration, The God of Tempest and Earthquake (1744); and a number of essays and occasional sermons. Sprague, Annals, 1, 376.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Byles, Mather, D.D
a minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church, son of Mather Byles, D.D., of the Hollis-street Church, Boston, was born in that city in 1734. He graduated from Harvard College in 1751; was settled as a Congregational clergyman, Nov. 18, 1757, in New London, Conn.; was dismissed in 1768, having become an Episcopalian. The same year he became rector of Christ Church, Boston, where he served until April, 1775, when he accepted an invitation to become rector in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1776, owing, doubtless, to his strong loyalty to the king, he left the country and went to Halifax, N. S., and in 1778 he was banished from the American colonies. After the war he became rector and chaplain at St. John’s, N. B. He died March 12, 1814. See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, i, 379.