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KENNETT, WHITE, son of Rev. Basil Kennett, Vicar of Postling and Rector of Dymchurch, Kent, and Mary, eldest dau. of Thomas White, Dover, Kent, master shipwright; b. 10 Aug 1660; at school under Busby (White Kennett, Case of Impropriations, 1704, 340); St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, matr. 25 Jun 1678; BA 1682; MA 22 Jan 1684/5; BD 1694; DD 1700 (incorp. Cambridge 1702); Tutor and Vice-Principal, St. Edmund Hall 1691; ordained; Curate, Bicester, Oxfordshire; Vicar of Ambrosden, Oxfordshire Sep 1685-1700; Rector of Shottesbrooke, Berks., Feb 1693 (disp. to hold with V. Ambrosden 1694); Archdeacon of Huntingdon 15 May 1701 - 20; Prebendary of Salisbury 15 Apr 1702 – c. Jun 1720; Rector of St. Botolph without Aldgate, London 1703-8; Dean of Peterborough 21 Feb 1707/8 – Nov 1718; Prebendary of Lincoln 27 Feb 1707/8- 25 May 1720; Rector of St. Mary Aldermary, London, from 5 May 1708; Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); consecrated Bishop of Peterborough 9 Nov 1718; a zealous Whig partisan; one of founders of Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts; a painstaking antiquary; author, Compleat History of England, 1706, and other works; m. 1st, 6 Jun 1693 Sarah, only dau. of Richard Carver, Bicester, Oxfordshire; m. 2nd, 6 Jun 1695 Sarah, sister of Richard Smith MD, London and Aylesbury, Bucks.; m. 3rd, 1703 Dorcas, widow of Clopton Havers MD, and dau. of Rev. Thomas Fuller, Rector of Willingale, Essex; d. 19 Dec 1728. DNB.