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- Ralph Cawley (1720 – 31 August 1777) was an English clergyman and Oxford academic. Cawley was born at Farnworth (then in Lancashire, now in Cheshire) in 1720, the son of John Cawley, schoolmaster at Farnworth School and later headmaster of Wigan Grammar School. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, matriculating in 1738, graduating B.A. 1742, M.A. 1744, B.D. & D.D. 1766. He was a Fellow of Brasenose 1744–1760. He was ordained deacon on 20 May 1744 and priest on 8 June 1745, both ordinations performed by Thomas Secker, Bishop of Oxford in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. He was appointed Rector of Selham, Sussex, in 1755 (a college nomination), and Rector of St Dunstan's, Stepney in East London in 1759. He built a new parsonage at Stepney in 1763–1764, mostly at his own expense. He resigned at Stepney in 1770, on his election as Principal of Brasenose. He was elected Principal of Brasenose in September 1770, holding the office until his death on 31 August 1777. Towards the end of his life, Cawley suffered from a heart condition, for which he took foxglove root, which greatly reduced the symptoms, relieving his breath and reducing the swelling in his legs. This story came to the attention of the botanist William Withering, who investigated and documented the medicinal use of foxglove. (The narrative that Cawley was treated by "Mother Hutton" who then sold her recipe to Withering is fanciful, created in a marketing campaign for the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company in the 1920s.) (en)
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- Ralph Cawley (1720 – 31 August 1777) was an English clergyman and Oxford academic. Cawley was born at Farnworth (then in Lancashire, now in Cheshire) in 1720, the son of John Cawley, schoolmaster at Farnworth School and later headmaster of Wigan Grammar School. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, matriculating in 1738, graduating B.A. 1742, M.A. 1744, B.D. & D.D. 1766. He was a Fellow of Brasenose 1744–1760. He was ordained deacon on 20 May 1744 and priest on 8 June 1745, both ordinations performed by Thomas Secker, Bishop of Oxford in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. (en)
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