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Wilcocks, Joseph, 1724-1791
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1724-1791
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WILCOCKS, JOSEPH, only surviving son of Right Rev. Joseph Wilcocks DD, Bishop of Rochester and Dean of Westminster, and Jane, dau. of John Milner, British Consul at Lisbon; b. 4 Jan 1723/4; adm. Sep 1731; KS 1736; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1740, matr. 10 Jun 1740, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1740 – void 26 Jun 1753; BA 1744; MA 1747; lived at Barton, Northants, and afterwards at Lady Place, near Hurley, Berks.; travelled abroad; in Italy and France in 1761-2, his piety and benevolence when at Rome winning him the admiration of Pope Clement XIII, who called him “the blessed heretic”; FSA 17 Feb 1763; prepared four books of Sacred Exercises for the use of the School, published 1759; his Roman Conversations, “compiled for the use of places of education, particularly Westminster School”, written in 1763, were published in 1792-4, 2 vols.; d. unm. 23 Dec 1791. Buried under Consistory Court, Westminster Abbey. DNB (s. v. father).
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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.