Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Hales, Stephen (3)
Hales, Stephen, y.s. Thomas, 1s. Sir Robert, bart., born at Beakesbourne, Canterbury, 17 Sept., 1677, pensioner Corpus Christi Coll., Cambridge, 19 June, 1696, B.A. 1699-1700, fellow 1702, M.A. 1703, B.D. 1711; D.D. Oxford by diploma 21 June, 1733, F.R.S. 1718, and Copley medallist 1739, served the donative of Teddington, Middlesex, 1709-61, rector of Porlock, Somerset, 1718, and of Faringdon, Hants, 1722, clerk of the closet to the Princess of Wales 1751, and chaplain to her son afterwards George III.; died 4 Jan., 1761. See Rawl. xvii. 199; O.H.S. ix. 177n.; D.N.B.; & Foster's Index Eccl.