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SELLON, WILLIAM, son of John Sellon, Marlow, Bucks.; b.; adm. (aged 10) Feb 1739/40; KS 1745; Capt. of the School 1749; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1750, adm. pens. 14 Jun 1750, scholar 26 Apr 1751, matr. 1751; ordained deacon (Lincoln) 14 Mar 1756; Curate, St. James’s, Clerkenwell 1756-8, Vicar from 1758; alternate evening preacher at the Magdalen Hospital from 13 Nov 1777; alternate afternoon lecturer at St. Giles in the Fields from 1758, and of St. Andrew’s, Holborn, from 1762; Chaplain to Earl of Pomfret 1763; proprietor and preacher, Portman Chapel, Baker Street, London; a popular preacher of the time; lic. to m. 4 May 1753 Sarah, sister of Baker John Littlehales (qv); d. 18 Jul 1790.
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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.