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FOULKES, PETER, third son of Robert Foulkes, Llechryd, Denbighshire, Deputy Baron of the Court of Exchequer, Chester, and Jane Ameridith, Landulph, Cornwall; a relation of William Jane (qv); bapt. St. Mary on the Hill, Chester 5 Nov 1676 (IGI); adm.; KS 1690; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1694, matr. 16 Jun 1694, aged 17, Westminster Student 29 Dec 1694 - void by marriage 1707, Tutor 1701-7, Junior Censor 1703-5; BA 1698; MA 1701; DD 1710; Proctor 1705; ordained; Prebendary of Exeter from 29 Sep 1704, Sub-Dean 25 Jun 1723-4, Chancellor 27 May 1724-31, Precentor 1 Oct 1731; Rector of Cheriton Bishop, Devon, from 1714; Canon of Christ Church from 25 Nov 1724, Sub-Dean 1725-33; he and John Freind (KS 1691, qv) produced an edition of Demosthenes, De Corona, 1695, of which a copy given by Foulkes to Jonathan Trelawny (qv) is in the School Library; m. 1st, 4 Aug 1707 Elizabeth Bidgood, Rockbeare, Devon; m. 2nd, by 1726, ---, sister of William Holwell, Exeter, Devon; m. 3rd, 26 Dec 1738 Anne, widow of William Holwell, and second dau. of Right Rev. Offspring Blackall DD, Bishop of Exeter; d. 4 May 1747. 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.