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Benjamin Pye LL.D. (1726 – 1808) was Archdeacon of Durham from 1791 to 1808.

Pye was educated at New College, Oxford. He was Rector of Whitburn from 1769 to 1791. He married (and was the second husband of) Elizabeth Bathurst-Sleigh 3rd daughter of Mary, who in turn was the second child of Charles Bathurst, MP for Richmond 1727.

According to (Sir) Cuthbert Sharp in his The Bishoprick Garland Benjamin Pye wrote the second "Stockton's Commendation".

He died on 26 March 1808.

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"Abstract of Will of Benjamin Pye, Doctor of laws, Archdeacon of Durham of Easington,..." National Archives. 27 April 1808. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Pye, Benjamin" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
"Parish of Whitburn | British History Online". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
Burke, John (1835). History of the commoners of England and Ireland Volume II BY John Burke 1835.
The Bishoprick Garland page 63, Gredos.usal.es
"The Bishopric Garland: Or, Durham Minstrel. Being a Choice Collection of Excellent Songs, Relating to the Above County, Full of Agreeable Variety, and Pleasant Mirth". R. Christopher. 15 July 1784. Retrieved 15 July 2020 – via Google Books.
'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland, &c. (Lancaster, England), Saturday, 2 April 1808; Issue 355

v t e Archdeacons of Durham
High Medieval	Sole archdeacons: Leobwine Thurstan Turgot of Durham Michael Senior archdeacons: Robert Wazo Vacant Burchard du Puiset Aimeric Simon de Ferlington William of Laneham Archdeacons of Durham: Robert de Cortuna Robert de Sancta Agatha Antony Bek William of Louth William de St Botulph
Late Medieval	Thomas de Goldesburgh Amaury de Beaumont Robert de Taunton Thomas de Neville William de Westle John de Kyngeston John de Stokes Alexander Neville Giacomo Cardinal Orsini Agapitus Cardinal de Colonna Pileus Cardinal de Prata Marius Cardinal Bulcano John Maundour Hugh Herle Thomas de Weston Alan de Newark John Hovyngham John Kemp Gabriel Cardinal Condulmier Robert Gilbert Robert Rolleston William Scrope George Neville Thomas Rotherham Ralph Booth Thomas Colston Roger Leyburn William Franklyn
Early modern	Bernard Gilpin John Ebden John Pilkington William Morton Gabriel Clark Denis Granville Robert Booth George Sayer Samuel Dickens Benjamin Pye Richard Prosser Charles Thorp
Late modern	Edward Prest Henry Watkins John Quirk, Bishop of Jarrow Samuel Knight, Bishop of Jarrow James Gordon, Bishop of Jarrow Egbert Lucas John Cobham Michael Perry Derek Hodgson Trevor Willmott Stephen Conway Ian Jagger Libby Wilkinson

v t e Diocese of Durham
Durham Cathedral Auckland Castle Prince-Bishops Durham Castle
Office holders	Bishop of Durham (vacant) Sarah Clark, Bishop suffragan of Jarrow and acting Bishop of Durham AEO: Stephen Race, Bishop suffragan of Beverley & Rob Munro, Bishop suffragan of Ebbsfleet Philip Plyming, Dean of Durham Rick Simpson, Archdeacon of Auckland Bob Cooper, Archdeacon of Sunderland and Dean-designate of Guildford Libby Wilkinson, Archdeacon of Durham
Historic offices	Bishop suffragan of Berwick (16th century) Archdeacon of Northumberland (until 1882; now in Newcastle) Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (1842–1882; now in Newcastle)

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