Reverend Zacheus Isham

Zacheus Isham, son of Thomas Isham, rector of Barby, Northamptonshire, and his wife Mary, was born about 1651.^? He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1666 and took the degrees of B.A. in 1671, M.A. in 1674, B.D. in 1682 and D.D. in 1689.^? For a time he was tutor to his cousin Sir Thomas Isham, 3rd Baronet, of Lamport, and travelled with him in Italy.^? About 1685 he became chaplain to Henry Compton, Bishop of London; he was made a prebendary of St Paul's in 1685/6 and a canon of Canterbury in 1691.^? In 1694 he succeeded his father-in-law Thomas Pittis as rector of St Botolph's, Bishopsgate, and in 1696 he represented the clergy of the diocese of London in Convocation.^? In 1701 he became rector of Solihull, Warwickshire.^?

He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Reverend Thomas Pittis, D.D., chaplain to Charles II. They had four sons and four daughters, among them Justinian, christened about 1695, and Mary, christened about 1696.^1,2 He died at Solihull on 5 July 1705 and was buried there on 7 July; there is a monument to him on the chancel floor.³

His life is in the Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 29 (1892), p. 73.