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WILLES, WILLIAM, brother of Edward Willes (adm. 1730/1, qv); bapt. Westminster Abbey 20 Dec 1731; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1739/40; left 1741; Wadham Coll. Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1747; BA 27 Feb 1749/50; MA 1753; employed as government decipherer c. 1752 – c. 1764; ordained deacon (Rochester for London) 1 Dec 1755, priest (Bath and Wells) 14 Jan 1756; Rector of Christian Malford, Wilts., from 16 Jan 1756; Prebendary of Wells 14 Oct 1757-60, Chancellor 3 Apr 1758-60; Archdeacon of Taunton 31 Dec 1760-7, Archdeacon of Wells from 20 Oct 1767; Rector of West Camel, Somerset 1788 (disp. to hold with R. Christian Malford); m. 23 Oct 1766 Margaret, sister of William Jeanes, Shroton, Dorset; d. 12 May 1815 (M. I. Christian Malford, Wilts. ).
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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.