Jonathan Kimberley (7 June 1651 – 7 March 1720) was Dean of Lichfield from 1713 until his death. [1]
Born in Bromsgrove, Smallwood was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. [2] He migrated to Cambridge in 1776. [3] He held livings at Stadhampton, Coventry, Baginton, Leamington Hastings and Tatenhill. [4]
Kimberley was appointed Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons by Speaker William Bromley in 1710, and then Dean of Lichfield in 1713. [5]
He died in Tatenhill in 1720.
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