Richard Blacow

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Richard Blacow MA (died 1760) was a Canon of Windsor from 1754 to 1760. [1]

Dean and Canons of Windsor ecclesiastical body of St Georges Chapel at Windsor Castle

The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Career

He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and graduated BA in 1744, MA in 1747.

Brasenose College, Oxford college of the University of Oxford

Brasenose College (BNC), officially The King's Hall and College of Brasenose, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1509, with the college library and current chapel added in the mid-17th century. The College's New Quadrangle was completed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with additional residence areas completed in the 1960s and 1970s.

He was ordained deacon in Rochester on 24 September 1749.

He was appointed:

He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1754 and held the canonry until 1760.

St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle Church in Windsor, England

St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England, is a chapel designed in the high-medieval Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar, a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch, and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter. Seating approximately 800, it is located in the Lower Ward of the castle.

In 1755 he wrote a letter to William King, principal of St Mary Hall in Oxford, giving an account of the riot in Oxford in February 1747 and accusing William King of being responsible for it. Blacow had been in Oxford at the time of the riot, and brought the three ringleaders to the Vice-Chancellor for punishment.

William King (St Mary Hall) English academic and writer, Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford

William King (1685–1763) was an English academic and writer, Principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford from 1719, He was known for strongly held Jacobite views, and as a satirist and poet.

Notes

  1. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle


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