Samuel Glasse

Samuel Glasse D.D. (1735–1812) was an English cleric and fellow of the Royal Society. He was of High Church views, in the circle of William Jones of Nayland, a Hutchinsonian, and a loyalist of the unrest in the 1790s.

Life The son of the Rev. Richard Glasse (or Glass) of Purton, Wiltshire, and his wife Elizabeth, he was a scholar of Westminster School from 1749 to 1752. He was elected a junior student of Christ Church, Oxford on 4 June 1752, proceeded B.A. in 1756, M.A. in 1759, and accumulated the degrees of B.D. and D.D. on 7 December.

Glasse's first preferment was the rectory of St. Mary's, Hanwell, Middlesex, in 1780; to that point he had been chaplain to Margaret Coke, Countess of Leicester, and a schoolmaster at Greenford in Middlesex from 1768. He resigned Hanwell in favour of his son, George Henry Glasse, in 1785. The church was rebuilt during his residency, and he contributed largely towards the new edifice. In 1782 he became vicar of Epsom, Surrey, and four years later rector of Wanstead, Essex. He was appointed to the prebend of Shalford in Wells Cathedral in 1791, which he retained until 1798, when he was installed as prebendary of Oxgate in St Paul's Cathedral.