Thomas Lynford

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Thomas Lynford (died 1724) [1] was Archdeacon of Barnstaple. [2]

He was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1670/1 and M.A. in 1674 and B.D. in 1689. [3]

He was rector of St. Edmund, Lombard Street, London and chaplain in ordinary to William III and Queen Mary. He was canon of Westminster Abbey from 1700 to 1724 and archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1709 until c.1731. [3]

He had been licensed in 1689 to marry Elizabeth Dillingham of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Stuart Handley, ‘Lynford, Thomas (bap. 1650, d. 1724)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2008 accessed 27 November 2012
  2. ↑ "Memorials of Barnstaple; being an attempt to supply the want of a history of that ancient borough" Gribble, J.B: Barnstaple, J.Avery, 1830
  3. 1 2 3 "Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714". British History Online. Retrieved 2012-05-23.


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