Background
He was son of Arthur Mangey, a goldsmith of Leeds, and was educated at the Leeds free school.
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Thomas Mangey
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Education
He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1707 and Master of Arts In 1719 he also proceeded Doctor of Laws, and in July 1725 Doctor of Divinity, being one of the seven who then received their doctorate at the hands of Richard Bentley.
Career
He was admitted as subsizar to Saint John"s College, Cambridge, 28 June 1704, at the age of sixteen. in 1711, and was admitted a fellow of Saint John"s 5 April 1715. In 1716 he is described on the title-page of one of his sermons as chaplain at Whitehall. In 1718 he resigned his fellowship.
In 1719 or earlier he was chaplain to the Bishop of London, John Robinson.
As deputy to William Lupton, preacher of Lincoln"s Inn (who died in December 1726), he delivered a series of discourses on the Lord"s Prayer, of which a second edition appeared in 1717. From 1717 to 1720 he was the Rector of Saint Nicolas" Church, Guildford, and subsequently the vicarage of Ealing, Middlesex, which he resigned in 1754, and the rectory of Saint Mildred"s, Bread Street, which he retained till his death.
In May 1721 he was presented to the fifth stall in Durham Cathedral, and promoted from that to the first in January 1722. Mangey died at Durham, 6 March 1755, and was buried in the east transept of the cathedral.
His widow survived him till 1780.
