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JEFFREYS, JOHN, third son of John Jeffreys, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, and Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Darell, Putney, Surrey, citizen and stationer; great-nephew of George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem (qv); b. 20 Aug 1718; adm. Jan 1730/1; KS 1732; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1737, matr. 14 Jun 1737, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1737 – void 18 May 1747, expiry year of grace as R. St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey; BA 1741; MA 21 Feb 1745/6; BD and DD 1769; ordained; Chaplain, 2nd Foot Guards 11 May 1742 – May 1759; Rector of St. Nicholas, Cole Abbey, London 14 May 1746- May 1792; Chaplain to William, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, when Ambassador in Paris 1748-54 (Correspondence of John, Duke of Bedford, iii, 93-5); Rector of Great Berkhampstead, Herts., from 1756; Rector of Whitford, Flints., from 1762; Canon of Christ Church 19 Aug 1769 – res Jun 1779; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 20 May 1779, Canon Residentiary from 3 Jun 1779; Rector of Barnes, Surrey 1792-5; JP Hertfordshire (occurs 1756-83); m. 2 Jun 1761 his cousin Elizabeth, dau. of Robert M. Darell, Richmond, Surrey; d. 20 Nov 1798.
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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.