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Mather Byles (loyalist)

Mather Byles II (12 January 1734/1735 – 12 March 1814),[1] was a Congregational clergyman at New London, Connecticut Colony, until 1768. In 1768, he entered the Established Church, and became rector of Christ Church, Boston.

Mather Byles
Born12 January 1734/1735
Died12 March 1814
Alma materHarvard College, Yale College, University of Oxford
Occupation(s)cleric, rector of Christ Church, Boston

Sympathizing with the royal cause, he settled, after the War of Independence, in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Chaplain to the Garrison and later in Saint John, New Brunswick, where he was rector of a church until his death.

The son of Mather Byles (1706–1788), he graduated from Harvard College in 1751 at the age of twelve, and later received his MA from the school. He also graduated from Yale College and the University of Oxford.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Wallace Brown, "Byles, Mather", Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Further reading edit

  • Alfred Claghorn Potter, Charles Knowles Bolton (1897), The Librarians of Harvard College 1667-1877, Cambridge, Mass: Library of Harvard University, OL 7223959M


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