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FOLEY, ROBERT, son of Thomas Foley MP, Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, and his second wife Mary, dau. of John Warters, Barbados; half-brother of Thomas Foley, 1st Baron Foley (qv); bapt. 5 Aug 1719; adm. (aged 7) 1727; left 1728; went to Bury St. Edmunds Sch.; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 11 Apr 1737, scholar 1738, matr. 1738; BA 1740/1; MA 1744; DD 1756; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1743; adm. Inner Temple 17 Dec 1734; ordained priest (Norwich) Jun 1745; Rector of St. Peter’s, Hereford, to res. Sep 1750, again Feb 1768 – 1777 [check]; Rector of Mordiford, Herefs., 21 Oct 1749 - Nov 1750, 18 Oct 1766 – Mar 1777 [check]; Rector of Kingham, Oxfordshire, from 16 Aug 1750; Vicar of Newent, Gloucs., from 1762 (disp. to hold with Kingham); Dean of Worcester from 10 Jan 1778; Master of St. Oswald’s Hospital, Worcester, from Dec 1778; m. Anne, dau. of William Dowdeswell (QS 1703, qv); d. 8 Jan 1783.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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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.