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Berry, John, 1662-?
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1662-?
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Berry, John; eldest son of Rev.John Berry, Nonconformist minister, formerly Rector of East Down, Devon ; b. Barnstaple, Devon c.1662 ; ed Barnstaple School ; Sidney Sussex Coll.Cambridge, matr.1680 ; BA 1683/4 ; MA 1687 ; ordained deacon 14 Jun 1685, priest 28 Feb 1685/6 (both Lincoln) ; Curate, Knebworth, Herts. ; Vicar of Watton, Norfolk, from 26 Aug 1691 (also Rector of Griston, Norfolk 9 Nov 1694- Sep 1699, Threxton, Norfolk 1698) ; he and his wife are said to have “boarded young gentlemen belonging to the school [Westminster School]” (A.Clarke, Memoirs of the Wesley family, 1823, 458), and it is suggested that this is how his daughter and her future husband became acquainted ; m. 21 Sep 1691 Ursula, dau. of Rev.Samuel Bentham, Rector of Knebworth, Herts., and half-sister of Rev.Samuel Bentham, Minor Canon of Westminster ; buried 28 Sep 1730. Father-in-law of Samuel Wesley (qv), Usher. [But note that the statement by Adam Clarke in his book of 1823 seems to be the only evidence that Berry and his wife conducted a boarding house for Westminster pupils, and a complication is that they would been doing this while Berry was also a Church of England clergyman in Norfolk]
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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, 2022
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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.