CARTWRIGHT, JOHN, eldest son of Right Rev. Thomas Cartwright DD, Bishop of Chester, and his first wife Mary Halldenby, St. Clement Danes, London; b.; adm.; KS 1673; rejected at election in 1677, but “stayed over” and was elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1678, adm. pens. 25 Jun 1678, aged 18, scholar 1679; 4th in “ordo” 1681/2; BA 1681/2; MA 1685 (incorp. Oxford 12 Jul 1687); Queen’s Coll. Oxford; BD and DD 16 Jul 1696; ordained; Prebendary of Lincoln 5 Feb 1686/7 – res by 30 May 1704, Prebendary of Worcester 8 Mar 1687/8 - res. by 12 Jun 1708; Rector of Winwick [county ?] 18 Jan 1687/8 – 1693/4; had a royal mandate to succeed his father as Vicar of Barking, Essex 13 Aug 1688; “went beyond the seas” before 20 May 1704; Chaplain, 3rd Foot, 28 Jun 1708; his name appears in Dalton’s Malplaquet Roll; m.; d. at Ghent, Flanders, probably before 1714.
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