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Alsop, Anthony, 1669-1726
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1669-1726
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ALSOP, ANTHONY, son of Anthony Alsop, Darley, Derbs., by Anne Lowe; bapt. 4 Jan 1668/9; adm.; KS 1686; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1690, matr. 12 Jul 1690, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1690 - void 12 Aug 1713 (expiry year of grace as R. Nursling), Tutor 1698-1709, Junior Censor 1701-2, Senior Censor 1703-5, Catechist 1706-7, 1711; BA 29 Jan 1694/5; MA 23 Mar 1696/7; BD 1706 (incorp. at Camb. 1707); ordained; Rector of Nursling, Hants. 31 Jul 1712-5; Rector of Alverstoke, Hants. 25 Mar 1715 (dispensation to hold with Nursling, 1715); Rector of Brightwell, Berks. 1715; Prebendary of Winchester from 21 May 1715; left England in 1718 on losing an action brought against him for breach of promise of marriage, but returned in 1720; is alluded to in the Dunciad; with Francis Atterbury (KS 1674 (qv)) and George Smalridge (qv) assisted Charles Boyle in the production of Dr. Bentley’s Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, 1698; editor, Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus, 1698, in the preface to which he attacked Bentley; his Latin Odes were published posthumously by Sir Francis Bernard (qv) in 1752; m. c. Dec. 1715 Margaret, widow of Rev. Francis Bernard, Rector of Brightwell, Berks. (and mother of Sir Francis Bernard (qv)), and dau. of Richard Winlowe, Lewknor, Oxfordshire; accidentally drowned 16 Jun 1726. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.