   thomas tenison (29 september 1636 â 14 december 1715) was an english church leader, archbishop of canterbury from 1694 until his death. during his primacy, he crowned two british monarchs. ==life== he was born at cottenham, cambridgeshire, and educated at norwich school, going on to corpus christi college, cambridge, as a scholar on archbishop matthew parker's foundation. he graduated in 1657, and was chosen fellow in 1659. for a short time he studied medicine, but in 1659 was privately ordained. as vicar of st andrew-the-great, cambridge, he set an example by his devoted attention to the sufferers from the plague. in 1667 he was presented to the living of holywell-cum-needingworth, huntingdonshire, by the earl of manchester, to whose son he had been tutor, and in 1670 to that of st peter mancroft, norwich. in 1680 he received the degree of doctor of divinity, and was presented by king charles ii to the important london church of st martin's-in-the-fields. tenison, according to gilbert burnet, "endowed schools including archbishop tenison's school, lambeth, founded in 1685 and archbishop tenison's school, croydon, founded in 1714, set up a public library, and kept many curates to assist him in his indefatigable labours". being a strenuous opponent of the church of rome, and "whitehall lying within that parish, he stood as in the front of the battle all king james's reign". in 1678, in a discourse of idolatry, he had condemned the heathenish idolatry practised in the church of rome, and in a sermon which he published in 1681 on discretion in giving alms was attacked by andrew poulton, head of the jesuits in the savoy. tenison's reputation as an enemy of romanism led the duke of monmouth to send for him before his execution in 1685, when bishops ken and turner refused to administer [[euchar
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