John Durell DD (d. 8 June 1677) was a Dean of Windsor from 1677 to 1683 [1]
The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the Canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The Dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as primus inter pares. The post of dean of Wolverhampton was assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480.
He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and then the University of Caen Lower Normandy where he graduated MA in 1644. He was ordained deacon and priest in the chapel of Sir R. Brown in Paris during the interregnum, 1651.
Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to support it. An important feature of Walter's foundation was that this "college" was to be self-governing and the endowments were directly vested in the Warden and Fellows.
He was appointed:
He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1664 and held the canonry until 1677 when he was made Dean of Windsor.
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England, is a chapel designed in the high-medieval Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar, a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch, and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter. Seating approximately 800, it is located in the Lower Ward of the castle.
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