Bayes, Thomas (1702–1761) was the eldest son of Bayes, Joshua, who was one of the first six Nonconformist ministers to be ordained in England, and was a member of the Royal Society. He was privately schooled by professors, as was customary in Nonconformist families. In 1731 he became reverend of the Presbyterian chapel in Tunbridge Wells, a town located about 150 km south-west of London. Due to some religious publications he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742.
His interest in mathematics was well-known to his contemporaries, despite the fact that he had not written any technical publications, because he had been tutored by De Moivre, A., one of the founders of the theory of probability. In 1763, Price, R. sorted through the papers left by Bayes and had his principal work published:
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An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances. Philos. Trans. Royal Soc. London, 53, pp. 370–418. Republished with a biography by Barnard, G.A. (1958). In:...
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(2008). Bayes, Thomas. In: The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1_22
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