FRAIGNEAU, WILLIAM, son of John Fraigneau, First Yeoman of Confectionery, Royal Household, and Madeleine Liege; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jul 1727; KS 1731; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1736, adm. pens. 24 Jun 1736, scholar 6 May 1737; 1st in “ordo” 1739/40; BA 1739/40; MA 1743; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 2 Oct 1742, Major Fellow 8 Jul 1743, Tutor 1743-8; Regius Professor of Greek, Camb. Univ., 1744-50; ordained deacon Mar 1739, priest 23 Oct 1748 (both Winchester); Curate, Wotton, Surrey 1739; tutor to Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke, with whom he travelled in Italy 1753-4; Vicar of Battersea, Surrey, from 18 Mar 1758; Rector of Beckenham, Kent, from 1765; m. 31 Mar 1758 Kitty Smith, Mortlake, Surrey; d. 12 Sep 1778. DNB.
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