Robert Parsons (Archdeacon of Gloucester)

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Robert Parsons was an English priest in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. [1]

Parsons was educated at University College, Oxford. [2] He held livings at Shabbington, Waddesdon and Oddington. He was Archdeacon of Gloucester from 1703 until his death on 8 July 1714. [3]

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References

  1. The Clergy-man's Law: Or, the Compleat Incumbent Watson, W. p12: London; John Nutt; 1712"
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Pace-Payton
  3. Horn, Joyce M. (1996), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 8, pp. 47–49