Thomas Fox (priest)

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Thomas Fox was an English priest. [1]

Fox was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. [2] He held the living at Bromyard, herefordshire Fox was appointed Archdeacon of Hereford in 1698 and held the office until his death in 1728. [3]

Notes

  1. 'he Clergy-man's Law: Or, The Complete Incumbent' Watson, w p12
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Flooke-Fyrmin
  3. Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Hereford  . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp.  481–482  via Wikisource.

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