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HAY, WILLIAM ROBERT, third son of Hon. Edward Hay (qv), and his first wife; b. 3 Dec 1761; adm. 26 Sep 1769; got out of his boarding house clandestinely with two schoolfellows to witness Garrick’s last appearance on the stage at Drury Lane Theatre 10 Jun 1776; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 14 Dec 1776, Canoneer Student 26 Jun 1778 – Jan 1788, Faculty Student 18 Jan 1788 – Jan 1793, void on marriage; BA 1780; MA 1783; adm. Inner Temple 2 May 1781, called to bar 1 Feb 1788; Northern circuit; ordained deacon (Winchester, lit. dim. from Chester) 31 Dec 1797; Rector of Ackworth, Yorks., from 15 Jul 1802; Prebendary of York from 7 Nov 1806; Vicar of Rochdale, Lancs., from 3 Jan 1820; Chairman, Salford Hundred Quarter Sessions Jul 1802 – 31 Jan 1823; took a prominent part as a magistrate in proceedings at Peterloo 16 Aug 1819, and the subject of Bamford’s Ode to a Plotting Parson; m. 28 Jan 1793 Mary, widow of John Astley, Dukinfield, Cheshire, and dau. of William Wagstaffe, Manchester, surgeon; d. 10 Dec 1839.
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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.