BLACKBURNE, LANCELOT, son of Richard Blackburne, London; b. 10 Dec 1658; adm.; KS 1671; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1676, matr. 20 Oct 1676, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1676-85 (void); BA 1680; MA (in his absence) 28 Jan 1683/4; ordained 1681; went to Antigua, West Indies, soon after his ordination; a protegé of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bart. (q. v. ), Bishop of Exeter; Prebendary of Exeter 15 Jun 1691, Sub-Dean 1695-1702, 1704-5; Rector of Calstock, Cornwall, 29 May 1696 (dispensation to hold with Bishopric of Exeter 1716/7); Vicar of Altarnun, Cornwall, 1699 (dispensation to hold with Calstock, 1699); Dean of Exeter 3 Nov 1705 - Feb 1716/7; Archdeacon of Cornwall 24 Jan 1714/5 - Feb 1716/7 (but dispensation to hold with Bishopric of Exeter, 1716/7 ?); Chaplain in Ordinary to George I (Chamberlayne 1716); DD Lambeth 28 Jan 1716; consecrated Bishop of Exeter 24 Feb 1716/7; Lord Almoner from 26 Oct 1723; Archbishop of York from 8 Nov 1724; Privy Councillor 10 Dec 1724; Busby Trustee from 18 Feb 1725/6; a gay and witty divine of remarkably free manners, which gave rise to many scandalous stories; was described by Horace Walpole as “the jolly old Archbishop of York who had all the manners of a man of quality, though he had been a buccaneer, and was a clergyman; but he retained nothing of his first profession, except his seraglio” (Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George II, 1847, i, 87); m. 2 Sep 1684 Catherine, widow of Walter Littleton, Lichfield, Staffs., and dau. of William Talbot, Stourton Castle, Staffs.; d. 23 Mar 1742/3. DNB.
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- NT 1, Little Dean's Yard
- NT 13, Moreton Terrace
- NT 14, Barton Street
- NT 15, Moreton Terrace
- NT 16, Vincent Square
- NT 17, Dean's Yard
- NT 17, Vincent Square
- NT 18, Dean's Yard
- NT 18, Great College Street
- NT 18, Vincent Square
- NT 19, Dean's Yard
- NT 2, Barton Street
- NT 2, Little Dean's Yard
- NT 20, Dean's Yard
- NT 20, Great College Street
- NT 22, Great College Street
- NT 22, Vincent Square
- NT 23, Vincent Square
- NT 26, Great College Street
- NT 29, Great College Street
- NT 29a, Great College Street
- NT 3, Dean's Yard
- NT 3, Little Dean's Yard
- NT 4, Barton Street
- NT 5, Barton Street
- NT 5a, Dean's Yard
- NT 6, Dean's Yard
- NT 7-9, Dean Bradley Street
- NT 7, Lord North Street
- NT 8, Gayfere Street
- NT Adrian Boult Building
- NT Adrian Boult Music Centre
- NT Armoury
- NT Armoury Block
- NT Ashburnham House
- NT Barton Street
- NT Boat House
- NT Busby Library
- NT Chapel
- NT Church House
- NT College Dormitory
- NT College Garden
- NT College Hall
- NT Dean's Yard
- NT Great College Street
- NT Great Sanctuary
- NT Grove Park
- NT Gym
- NT Liddell's Arch
- NT Little Dean's Yard
- NT Manoukian Music Centre
- NT Millicent Fawcett Hall
- NT Mother Dawson's
- NT Nenthead House, Alston
- NT Robert Hooke Science Centre
- NT School
- NT School Gateway
- NT School House, Alston
- NT Singleton's
- NT Sports Centre
- NT St Edward's House
- NT Sutcliff's
- NT Tothill Fields
- NT Tothill Street
- NT Tufton Street
- NT Turles House
- NT Under School
- NT Vincent Square
- NT Westminster Abbey
- NT Weston Building