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Bancroft, John, ca. 1574-1641
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ca. 1574-1641
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BANCROFT, JOHN, son of Christopher Bancroft, Asthall, Oxfordshire, and Audrey Andrews; nephew of Most Rev. Richard Bancroft DD, Archbishop of Canterbury; b.; adm.; QS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1592, matr. 10 Feb 1592/3, aged 18, Westminster Student to (?) 1601, Tutor; BA 1596; MA 1599; BD 1607; DD 24 Jan 1609/10; tutor to Robert Burton, the author of Anatomy of Melancholy; ordained; Rector of Finchley, Middlesex, 11 Dec 1601-8; Rector of Orpington, Kent, 1605-40; Rector of Stormouth, Kent 1608-10; Rector of Woodchurch, Kent, 1609-33; Rector of Biddenden, Kent, 1610-40; Prebendary of St. Paul’s, 23 Oct 1609 – Jun 1632; Master of University Coll., Oxford, 7 Mar 1609/10 - 23 Aug 1632; consecrated Bishop of Oxford 10 Jun 1632; built a residence for himself and his successors in the See of Oxford at Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire; d. 12 Feb 1640/1. DNB.
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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.