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Mapletoft, John, 1631-1721
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1631-1721
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MAPLETOFT, JOHN, son of Rev. Joshua Mapletoft, Vicar of Margaretting and Rector of Wickford, Essex, and Susanna, dau. of John Collett, Bourn, Cambs.; b. 15 Jun 1631; adm.; KS in 1645; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1648, adm. pens. 20 May 1648, scholar 1649, matr. Mich. 1649; 9th in “ordo” 1651/2; BA Jan 1651/2 (incorp. Oxford 11 Jul 1654); MA 1665; MD 1667 (incorp. Oxford 13 Jul 1669); DD 1690; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1 Oct 1653 – c. 1662, Tutor 1656; adm. Gray’s Inn 12 May 1652; tutor in family of Earl of Northumberland 1658-60; went abroad to study medicine; subsequently medical practitioner in London to 1679, when he retired from practice; Professor of Physic, Gresham College 1675-9; ordained deacon and priest 3 Mar 1682/3; Rector of Braybrooke, Northants 5 Mar 1682/3-6; Vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, from 10 Jan 1685/6; the last survivor of the community at Little Gidding founded by Nicholas Ferrar; author, The Principles and Duties of the Christian Religion, 1710, and other works; m. 18 Nov 1679 Rebecca, dau. of Lucy Knightley, Hackney, Middlesex, Hamburg merchant; d. 10 Nov 1721. 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.