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HARRISON, WILLIAM, of London; b. 18 Feb 1534, in “Cordwainer streete, otherwise called Bowe lane, in the parish of St. Thomas the Apostle”; at school under Nowell, having previously been at St. Paul’s Sch. (Furnival, Elizabethan England, xiv); Christ Church, Oxford; BA 1556; MA 1560; BD (Cambridge) 1569; ordained; Rector of Radwinter, Essex, from 16 Feb 1558/9; Rector of St. Olave’s, Silver Street, London 28 Mar 1567 – 1570/1; Vicar of Wimbish, Essex, 28 Jan 1570/1-81; Vicar of St. Thomas the Apostle, London, 26 Oct 1583-7; Canon of Windsor from 24 Apr 1586; author of the “Historical Description of England” prefaced to Holinshed’s Chronicle, 1577, and of other works; m. Marion, dau. of William Isebrande, Anderne, near Guisnes, Picardy; d. Feb 1593/4. 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.