George Rye was an English Anglican priest in the 18th century.[1]
Rye was born in Culworth, the son of George and Elizabeth Rye (nee Tipping). The elder George Rye was educated at Trinity College, Oxford and Lincoln's Inn and was appointed a “Gentleman of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Chamber in ordinary” in 1672.[2]
George Rye was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, and then was a Fellow of Oriel College, earning his B.A. in 1695, his M.A. in 1698, a B.D. in 1713-14 and his D.D. in 1715. Rye published a copy of his sermon, "The Supremacy of the Crown, and the Power of the Church, Asserted and Adjusted. A sermon preach'd before the University of Oxford, at St Mary's, on Sunday Jan. 17. 1713/14"[3] and held livings at Adwell, Islip and Ickford. He was appointed Archdeacon of Oxford in 1724; and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford as well as being appointed as a canon of Christ Church, Oxford in 1737, holding all three positions until his death on 4 July 1741. He was buried at Culworth.