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Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694
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1627-1694
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LITTLETON, ADAM, sixth son of Rev. Thomas Littleton, Vicar of Halesowen, Worcs.; b. 2 Nov 1627; adm.; KS 1641; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1644, Westminster Student; expelled by Parliamentary Visitors, but seems to have come back into residence, for in May 1651 he petitioned for restitution of his Craven Scholarship, which had been sequestered; DD 1670; an Usher at the School; Under Master 1658-61, resigned; started a school at Chelsea; ordained deacon and priest 10 Mar 1665 (Winchester); Rector of Chelsea, Middlesex, from 3 Feb 1669/70; Chaplain in Ordinary to Charles II, James II and William III from 1670 (still listed as such Miege1691); granted reversion of Head Mastership of the School after the death of Richard Busby (qv), 1670; Prebendary of Westminster from 16 Sep 1674; Rector of Overton, Hampshire, from 1683; Perpetual Curate of St. Botolph’s, Aldersgate, London 27 Mar 1685-9; a man of considerable learning and a collector of books and manuscripts; author of a Latin dictionary in four parts, 1673, and other works; said to have been the author of Tragi-Comoedia Oxoniensis, also attributed to John Carrick (qv); m. 1st, 6 Mar 1665/6 Elizabeth Scudamore, St. Andrew Undershaft, London; m. 2nd, 7 Feb 1666/7 Susan, dau. of Thomas Rich, St. Andrew Undershaft, London, citizen and mercer; m. 3rd, Susan, dau. of Richard Guildford, Chelsea, Middlesex; d. 30 Jun 1694. 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.