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Bedford, Hilkiah; third son of Hilkiah Bedford, Hosier Lane, West Smithfield, London, mathematical instrument maker, and Mary, dau. of William Plat ; b. 23 Jul 1663 ; ed. Bradley, Suffolk, and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, Plat scholar 1679 ; Fellow, St.John’s Coll. 1685 ; ordained deacon 18 Sep 1686 (Ely), priest 25 Sep 1687 (Lincoln) ; Rector of Wittering, Northants., 26 Nov 1687, but ejected as a non-juror 1690 ; Chaplain to Thomas Ken, ejected Bishop of Bath and Wells ; travelling tutor to pupils on Grand Tour in France and Italy ; found guilty in 1714 of writing, publishing and printing a seditious libel, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment (although the pamphlet in question, The Hereditary Right of the Crown of England asserted, 1713, had not in fact been written by him) ; Chaplain to Heneage Finch, Earl of Winchilsea Jan 1719 ; consecrated a non-juring bishop by Bishops Spinckes, Hawes and Gandy 25 Jan 1720/1 ; kept a boarding house on Millbank for the School from summer 1718 ; his surviving correspondence in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, includes a few references to boarders being placed with him ; m. Alice, dau. of William Cooper, Scarborough, Yorks., master mariner ; d. 26 Nov 1724. Father of William, John and Thomas Bedford (qvv). ODNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.