page_title: Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet
section_title: Clerical career
hierarchical_section_title: Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet / Clerical career
caption_attribution_description: English: The Deanery at Lincoln by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm 1784
context_page_description: Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet, FRS, LL.D was an English peer, churchman and scientist. He was Dean of Lincoln from 1783, and inherited the baronetcy from his elder brother Sir John Lister Kaye, 5th Baronet in 1789.
context_section_description: Kaye was noted both for his piety but also as a great pluralist holding many rich livings in the Church of England at the same time.(Chadwick 1992, p. 83) Following graduation, in 1762 he was appointed chaplain to the Duke of Portland. Then in 1765 he became rector of Kirkby in Ashfield in 1765, a position he owed to the Dowager Duchess of Portland, and which he retained until his death.(Walkerdine & Buxton 1907) In this parish dissenters and methodists following John Wesley made up the greatest part of the population, but Kaye was able to bring most of the population to return to worshiping at the parish church. His notebook recording life in the parish is now in British Library. After about 1770 Grimm was to portray life in the parish with pictures of harvest devotions and the village schoolchildren attending a church service. Only a year after moving to Kirby he was appointed in 1766, a Chaplain in Ordinary within the Royal Household and in 1768 he became a Sub-Almoner. His next move forward was in 1780 when he was appointed Archdeacon of Nottingham. He had already been appointed Vicar of Clayworth. In 1783 he became prebend of North Muskham at Southwell Minster. 
  In 1788 he became curate of Marylebone in 1788.(Lysons 1795, pp. 242–279)  He had a prebend as a residential canon at Lincoln from 1783 for life,(Horn & Smith 1999) at Durham, from 1777 to 1784 (leading Grimm to sketch in the north-east),(Horn, Smith & Mussett 2004, pp. 102–103) and one at Southwell.(Brown 1896) He held all these positions together with being Dean of Lincoln from 1783 to 1809 and he resided at the Deanery in Lincoln, which was drawn by Hieronymus Grimm.
caption: Lincoln Deanery by Hieronymus Grimm about 1784
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