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RICHARDS, WILLIAM, eldest son of Rev. Richard Richards, Rector of Combe Martin, Devon, and of Kentisbury, Devon, and his first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Hancock, Combe Martin, Devon; bapt. Nov 1600; at school under Wilson four years (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. of Gonville and Caius Coll., i, 239); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. to scholars’ table 4 May 1618, scholar Lady Day 1619 – Lady Day 1620, matr. Easter 1618; adm. Middle Temple 20 Jun 1620, called to bar 11 Feb 1630/1; of Kentisbury and Barnstaple, Devon, and of New Street, Westminster; lic. to m. 28 Jan 1633/4 Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Norgate, Westminster, Windsor Herald, and his second wife, and half-sister of Thomas Norgate (qv); d. 1659 (will proved PCC 17 Dec 1659, as of Middle Temple).
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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.