Comber, Thomas (2)
Comber, Thomas
a learned English divine, was born at Westerham, Kent, March 19, 1644. It is said that he could read Greek at ten years old. Admitted B.A. at Cambridge in 1662, he was made Prebendary of York in 1677, dean of Durham in 1691, and died in 1699. His chief works are: Companion to the Temple (new edit., Oxford, 1841, 7 vols. 8vo, one of the most complete works extant on the Book of Common Prayer): Short Discourses on the Common Prayer (1684, 8vo): Roman Forgeries in the Councils of the first four Centuries (London, 1689, 4to). His Memoirs, by his great grandson, T. Comber, were published in London in 1799 (8vo). Hook, Ecclesiastes Biography, 4:156; Kippis, Biographia Britannica, 4:45.
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Comber, Thomas (2)
grandson of the preceding, passed M.A. at Cambridge in 1770, and LL.D. in 1777. He was rector of Hickby-Misherton, Yorkshire, afterwards of Morbone, and died rector of Buckworth in 1778. He wrote The Heathen Rejection of Christianity in the first Ages considered (Lond. 1747, 8vo): Examination of Middleton’s Discourse against Miracles (8vo): Treatise of Laws, from the Greek of Sylburgius (1776, 8vo),
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Comber, Thomas (2)
an English .clergyman. great-grandson of the dean of Durham, was rector of Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire. He published, Memoir of the Life and Writinsgs of Dean Comber (1779): Sermons (1807): History of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew (1810): Adultery Analyzed (eod.): A Scourge for Adulterers, Duellists, Gamesters, and Self-murderers. (anon., eod.). See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.