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Whitfield, John, 1705-1783
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1705-1783
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WHITFIELD, JOHN, son of William Whitfield (qv); bapt. St. Martin’s Ludgate, London 7 Jun 1705 (IGI); adm.; in under school list 1715; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1717; KS 1718; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1722, matr. 6 Jun 1722, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1722 – void 4 Apr 1743 (expiry year of grace as R. Bideford from 24 Apr 1742), Tutor 1733-40, Junior Censor 1735, Senior Censor 1736-8; BA 1726; MA 1728/9; Professor of Poetry, Oxford Univ. 1738-41; Proctor 1739; ordained priest (Winchester) 19 Sep 1730; tutor and chaplain to Granville Leveson Gower, 1st Marquis of Stafford (qv); Rector of Bideford, Devon, from 1741/2; possessed a ready wit and a knack of writing epigrams; buried Bideford, Devon 25 Apr 1783.
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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.