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CHELSUM, JAMES, son of James Chelsum, a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal and one of the Singing Men at Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s, and Mary Ward; b. 13 Apr 1738; in school list 1746; BB Mich. 1748 - still 1754; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 28 May 1755, matr. Easter 1756; migrated to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 30 Jun 1758, Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1758 - void 29 May 1781 (expiry year of grace as PC Lathbury from 22 May 1780), Tutor 1765-79, Catechist 1768-80, Junior Censor 1769-70, Senior Censor 1771; BA 1759; MA 1762; BD 1772; DD 1773; Usher 1759, still 1762 (having received leave of absence as Student of Christ Church, Oxford 12 Dec 1759 on being made Usher at the School), shown as taking the Fifth form in an undated list of the teaching staff assignable to 1762 or 1763; ordained deacon (Chester) 7 Mar 1762, priest (Oxford) 2 Jun 1765; Curate, St. Thomas, Oxford, 1777; Perpetual Curate of Lathbury, Bucks., c. 1773 - 80; Vicar of Duffield, Derbs., 20 Feb 1773 - May 1780; Rector of Badger, Shropshire, 29 May 1780 - May 1795; Rector of Droxford, Hampshire, from 21 Mar 1782; Whitehall Preacher (occurs 1774-81); author of two pamphlets on Gibbon’s treatment of Christianity in the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776, 1785, and of a History of the Art of Engraving in Mezzotinto, 1786; m.; buried Droxford, Hampshire 1 May 1801. DNB.
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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.