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ALTHAM, ROGER, son of Roger Altham, Settle, Yorks.; b.; apparently adm. to Christ’s Coll. Camb. from Giggleswick School 6 Jun 1663, aged 15, but if so was at Westminster subsequently; KS (Capt. ) 1664; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1668, matr. 17 Dec 1668, aged 19, Westminster Student 26 Dec 1668 – void 1690, Tutor 1675-82, Junior Censor 1681; BA 1672; MA 1675; BD 1683; DD 1694; Proctor 1682; ordained deacon 17 Dec 1681, priest 12 Mar 1681/2 (both Oxford); Chaplain to John Dolben, Archbishop of York (qv); Prebendary of York from 19 Oct 1683, of Southwell from 1 Aug 1685, and of Ripon from 1688/9; Rector of Nunburnholme, Yorks., 1685-7; Vicar of Finedon, Northants., from 7 Jun 1688; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Hebrew 6 Nov 1691-7, and from 12 Mar 1702/3; m. Frances, dau. of Christopher Hodgson, New Hall, Beeston, Yorks.; d. 15 Aug 1714. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
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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.