George Withers (archdeacon)

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George Withers was an English clergyman. [1]

Withers was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, then incorpororated at Oxford in 1565. [2] He held livings at Swaffham Bulbeck and Danbury. Withers was Archdeacon of Colchester from 1570 until his death in 1605. [3]

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References

  1. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. iv Vol. iv. Saal – Zuinglius, (1927) p444
  2. British History On-line
  3. Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, p. 59