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CHUFFE, ---; b.; adm.; QS in 1556 (Chapter Muniments 37713).

CHURCH, ---; b.; in under school lists 1717, 1718. [“probably a chorister”]

CHURCH, JOHN, son of John Church, Lay Vicar and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, and Elizabeth Wood, Boughton Aluph, Kent; b.; in school list 1715 [“probably a chorister”]; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1718; KS 1719; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1723, matr. 18 Jun 1723, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1723 - void 18 Aug 1736 (expiry year of grace as R. Boxford from 18 Sep 1735); BA 1727; MA 1730 (incorp. Cambridge 1732); ordained; Rector of Boxford, Suffolk, from 1735; Rector of Groton, Suffolk, from 1743; known as “Honest John Church” (Bishop Newton’s Works, 1787, i, 172); m. Mary, dau. of Thomas Martin, Barrards Hall, Whatfield, Suffolk; d. 27 Oct 1785.

CHURCH, RALPH, brother of John Church (qv); b. ; adm. ; in under school list 1716 [“probably a chorister”]; KS (aged 13) 1721; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1725, matr. 2 Jun 1725, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1725 - void 26 Nov 1736 (expiry year of grace as V. Pyrton), Tutor 1729-31; BA 1727; MA 1732; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1733, priest 4 Jun 1734 (both Oxford); Vicar of Pyrton, Oxfordshire, from 20 Nov 1735; Vicar of Shirburn, Oxfordshire, from 14 Nov 1748; edited Spenser’s Faery Queen, 1738; d. Apr 1787. DNB.

CHURCH, RICHARD; b.; adm. 13 Jan 1777; left Dec 1780.

CHURCH, WILLIAM, son of William Church, Newport, Shropshire; b.; adm. (aged 9) Jan 1744/5; left 1747; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Nov 1754; BA 1758; MA 1763; ordained; Rector of Hymston and Llanharan, Glamorganshire; [perhaps Chaplain, 1st Foot, 12 May 1769 - still 1781 – a new Chaplain in his place 1786]; d. 27 May 1815. [Perhaps William Church, son of William Church, and Alice ---, bapt. Shawbury, Shropshire 26 May 1735 (IGI)]

CHURCHEY, WILLIAM, son of William Churchey, Henstridge, Somerset; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1726; in under school list 1729; Hart Hall, Oxford, matr. 17 Nov 1732; adm. Middle Temple 22 Jan 1732/3, called to bar 24 Jun 1737; m. 13 Mar 1742/3 Elizabeth Spateman, St. Andrew’s, Holborn. [Probably William Churchey, bapt. St. Andrew, Holborn 20 Nov 1715, son of William Churchey, and Mary (Boucher ?) (IGI)]

CHURCHILL, ---; b.; in under school list 1724.