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RAYNER, WILLIAM, son of Michael Rayner, St. Matthew Fiday Street, London; b.; adm.; KS 1675; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1682, matr. 18 Dec 1682, aged 18, Westminster Student 18 Dec 1682 – void 1697; BA 1686; MA 1690; ordained; Head Master, Barnstaple GS 1690-8; Master of Blundell’s School, Tiverton, Somerset, from 1698; “remarkable for an exact knowledge of the classicks and a peculiar felicity in explaining them” (see Hearne’s Collections, x, 264); Rector of West Monckton, Somerset, 5 Apr 1710-9; Vicar of Collaton Raleigh, Devon 1716-21; Rector of Wyke Regis, Dorset, from 1719; m.; d. 19 Mar 1729/30.
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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.