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Henry Carpenter (priest)

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Henry Carpenter D.D. (1606 - 1662) was a Canon of Windsor for a short period in 1662[1]

Career

He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford where he graduated B.A. in 1624, DD in 1662.

He was appointed:

  • Vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry 1633 - 1636
  • Rector of Gretford, Lincolnshire 1635 - 1636
  • Vicar of Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire 1636 - 1660
  • Rector of Hilprintgon, Wiltshire 1638 - 1662
  • Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons 1660
  • Prebendary of Yetminster in Salisbury Cathedral 1660
  • Rector of St Dionis Backchurch 1661 - 1662
  • Rector of Stapleford Tawney, Essex 1661 - 1662

He was appointed to the seventh stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1662.

Notes

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