1799 A fine letter from George Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln at Buckden Palace to Charles Howard, The 11th Duke of Norfolk, regarding the Rectory of Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Recently found in the Howard archives of Corby Castle.
Sir George Pretyman Tomline, 5th Baronet FRS (born George Pretyman; 9 October 1750 – 14 November 1827) was an English clergyman, theologian, Bishop of Lincoln and then Bishop of Winchester, and confidant of William Pitt the Younger. He was an opponent of Catholic emancipation. He was born George Pretyman in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk to a family claiming to have been influential in the region as far back as the fourteenth century. His father, also George Pretyman (1722–1810) was a landowner and wool merchant. His mother, George's wife, was Susan née Hubbard (1720/1721 – 1807). Pretyman attended Bury St Edmunds Grammar School and then Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1772 as senior wrangler and Smith's prizewinner. He was elected a fellow of Pembroke in 1773. He was ordained deacon in 1774 and priest in 1776:[1] by Philip Yonge, Bishop of Norwich at his Palace's chapel on 14 August 1774[2] and by John Hinchliffe, Bishop of Peterborough at Trinity College, Cambridge on 16 June 1776. William Pitt the Younger was sent to Pembroke in 1773, at the age of fourteen, and Pretyman became his tutor and gradually his friend and confidant.[4] When Pitt unsuccessfully stood for election as Member of Parliament for Cambridge University in the 1780 British general election, Pretyman supported him.The antiquary Edward John Rudge published a history, Illustrated and Historical Account of Buckden Palace, in 1839
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