Robert Comyn (priest)

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Robert Comyn (1672-1727) was an English priest in the first half of the 18th century. [1]

Crosse was born in East Ilsley and educated at Balliol College, Oxford. [2] He migrated to University of Cambridge in 1693. Comyn held livings at Wigmore, Brampton Bryan, Pontesbury and Presteign. He was Archdeacon of Shropshire from 1713 to 1726. [3]

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References

  1. "Comyn, Robert (CMN693R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Colericke-Coverley
  3. Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 10, pp. 12–14