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Kinsman (or Kynnesman), Arthur; son of Harold Kinsman (or Kynnesman), St.Michael’s Cornhill, London, mercer, and his second wife Amy Dentry ; b. 25 Dec 1682 ; ed. Christ’s Hospital Sch. and Trinity Coll.Cambridge, adm. sizar 30 Jun 1702 ; BA 1705 ; MA 1709 ; ordained deacon 23 Sep 1710 (Peterborough), priest 22 Mar 1712/3 (London) ; “brought to Westminster by that excellent master Mr George Tollet when he was second master”; Usher in 1714 (Letter Books of John Hervey, First Earl of Bristol, 1894, 390-1, where Lord Bristol records in a letter dated 26 Jun 1714 that “Dr Friend, the master of Westminster School … has recommended Mr.Kinsman, one of his assistants … who he assures me is in every way qualified for that employment”, to succeed as Head Master of Bury St.Edmunds School in the event of a vacancy) ; Head Master, Bury St.Edmunds Sch. 1715-45 ; “an excellent master, a very sufficient scholar” (Cumberland, Memoirs, 23), who expanded the school,to some 150 pupils and secured it an excellent reputation ; he “formed his scholars upon the system of Westminster” ; Rector of Barnham, Suffolk, from 11 May 1722 ; Reader, St.James, Bury St.Edmunds, Suffolk, 13 Jul – 13 Sep 1751 ; Rector of Eriswell, Suffolk, from 6 Jun 1766 ; author, A Short Introduction to Grammar, 1768 ; m. Margaret Maddocks, Troston, Suffolk ; d. 10 Jul 1770. ODNB (under KYNNESMAN).
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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.