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Robert Woodward (priest)

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Robert Woodward (9 June 1653 - 13 February 1702) was an Anglican priest in the later decades of the 17th-century and the first of the 18th.

Woodward was born in Salford, Bedfordshire and educated at New College Oxford.[1] He graduated BCL in 1677; and DCL in 1686. He was ordained on 25 September 1681. He was Rector of Pewsey from 1685[2] until his death. Woodward served as Archdeacon of Wilts from 1681 until 1691;[3] and Dean of Salisbury from then until his death.[4]

References

  1. ^ Yaire-Yule Pages 1674-1697 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
  2. ^ CCEd
  3. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1986), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 6, pp. 18–19
  4. ^ British History on-line
Church of England titles
Preceded by Archdeacon of Wilts
1681–1691
Succeeded by
Preceded by Dean of Salisbury
15 June 2015–present
Succeeded by