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Kennett, White, 1660-1728
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1660-1728
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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.
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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.