George Sayer (priest)

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George Sayer was an Anglican priest in the mid 17th century.^[1]

Sayer was born in the parish of St Gregory in the City of London and educated at Oriel College, Oxford.^[2] He held the living at Witham from 1722, and the Archdeacon of Durham ^[3] from 1730 until his death on 26 July 1761.^[4]

Notes

↑ "Hudibras, Volume 1" Grey, Z. p24: Cambridge; J.Bentham; 1744
↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Sabery-saywell
↑ History of Parliament On-line
↑ British History On-line

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