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JANE, WILLIAM, son of Joseph Jane MP, Liskeard, Cornwall, attorney; bapt. 22 Oct 1645; at school under Busby (Wood, Athenae Oxon., iv, 643); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Dec 1660, aged 16, Canoneer Student 29 Apr 1661 – 5 Jul 1678, Tutor 1666-75, Senior Censor 1672-3; BA 1664; MA 1667; BD 1674; DD 1679; ordained; Chaplain to Right Rev. Henry Compton DD, Bishop of London; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 5 Jul 1678; Rector of Wennington, Essex; Prebendary of St. Paul’s from 24 Jun 1679, Treasurer from 7 Oct 1679; Archdeacon of Middlesex 7 Oct 1679- Jun 1686; Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford, from 19 May 1680; Rector of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, from 1680; framed the Oxford declaration in favour of passive obedience 1683; Dean of Gloucester from 6 Jun 1685; Prolocutor, Lower House of Convocation 1689; secured defeat of the “Comprehension Scheme”; Chaplain to William III and Mary (Miege 1691); Chancellor of Exeter 2 Feb 1702/3- May 1704, Precentor 6 May 1704-6 (also Prebendary from Feb 1702/3 [?check]; d. 22 Feb 1706/7. Buried Christ Church Cathedral. 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.