Education

Slade was educated at St Peter's College, Westminster

Westminster School

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 and elected to Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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 University in 1789, where he received his Doctorate of Divinity.

Career

In 1796 he became tutor to the Duke of Dorset

Charles Sackville-Germain, 5th Duke of Dorset

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, and in 1813 was first Chaplain to Lord Whitworth

Charles Whitworth, 1st Earl Whitworth

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, then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He was instituted Vicar of Staverton, Northamptonshire

Staverton, Northamptonshire

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 on 11 April 1815 and Rector of Hartfield

Hartfield

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, Sussex in 1817. On the 12 March 1824 he was granted the dignity dean of the Cathedral Church of Chichester, after the previous incumbent had been promoted to the bishopric of Gloucester. Samual Slade died on 29 December 1829, although it had been expected that he would have gone further in his career, if he had lived longer.