Lionel Gatford (priest, died 1715)

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Lionel Gatford, D.D. was an English Anglican priest in the 17th century. [1]

The son of Lionel Gatford, he received his education at Jesus College, Cambridge. [2] He was incorporated at Oxford in 1706. [3] He held livings at St Margaret's, Laceby; St Andrew's, Clewer, and St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London. He was appointed Archdeacon of St Albans in 1713; [4] and Precentor and Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral in 1714. He died on 15 September 1715

Notes

  1. CCEd
  2. "Lionel Gatford (GTFT660L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Gabel-Gilmore
  4. Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, p. 59


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