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Wall, John, 1588-1666
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1588-1666
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WALL, JOHN, son of “genteel parents” in the City of London; b. 1588; adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1604, matr. 23 Nov 1604, aged 16, Westminster Student to 1624; BA 1608; MA 1611; BD 1618; DD 1623; ordained; Rector of St. Aldates, Oxford 1617; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from May 1632; Vicar of Chalgrove, Oxfordshire 1637; Prebendary of Salisbury from 5 Nov 1644; ejected from his Canonry of Christ Church by the Parliamentary Visitors “for his high contempt and denyall of authoritie of Parliament”, 12 Apr 1648, but restored on his submission, 25 Sep 1648; in a letter to the Committee dated 24 Jul 1650 the Visitors report that Wall had resigned one of his two livings and that they have been “credibly informed of his affection to Parliament” (Burrows, 183, 298); a quaint preacher and learned patristic divine; d. unm. 20 Oct 1666. DNB.
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GB 2014
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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.