Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet [SEP] date of death
Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet
Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet, FRS (1736–25 December 1809) was an English 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.
Life.
He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford graduating BCL in 1761. He was a patron of the artists Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, whom he commissioned for two decades to draw "everything curious", and Tilly Kettle. He was
- 23 November 1685 – 1 February 1690 (deprived): Samuel Crowbrow (deprived as a non-juror)
- 26 July 1690 – 6 February 1716 (d.): William Pearson
- 18 February 1716 – 24 August 1748 (d.): Robert Marsden
- 30 September 1748 – 11 July 1780 (d.): Hugh Thomas
- 2 August 1780 – 25 December 1810 (d.): Sir Richard Kaye, 6th Baronet (also Dean of Lincoln from 1783; styled Richard Kaye until 1789)