Christopher Helme (priest)

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The Venerable William Powell D.D. was an Anglican priest in England.^[1]

Helme was born in Wiltshire and educated at Merton College, Oxford.^[2] He was appointed Fellow in 1564 and Praelector in 1578. He held the living at Bredon from 1607 and was Archdeacon of Derby from 1609 until his deprivation in 1617.^[3] Helme died in 1628.

Notes

↑ " The History and Antiquities of the Church and City of Lichfield" Harwood, T. p214: Glocester; Cadell & Davies; 1806
↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Hawten-Hider
↑ Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 10, pp. 10–12

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