Vicar of Bray explained

Vicar of Bray may refer to:

• "The Vicar of Bray" (song), an 18th-century satirical song about a quasi-fictional clergyman, to which all other uses refer
• Vicar of Bray (term), a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him
• Simon Aleyn, probably the original of the song, as Vicar of Bray, Berkshire, until he died in 1565
• The Vicar of Bray (opera), a comic opera by Edward Solomon with a libretto by Sydney Grundy first performed in 1882
• The Vicar of Bray (film), a 1937 film set in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
• Vicar of Bray (scientific hypothesis), an evolutionary hypothesis
• The Church of England vicar of St Michael's Church, Bray in Berkshire, England

See also

• George Orwell's essay A Good Word for the Vicar of Bray