John Mandeville (priest)

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John Mandeville (1655 – 21 January 1725) was a Canon of Windsor from 1709 to 1722[1] and Dean of Peterborough from 1722 to 1725.

Career[edit]

He was educated at Worksop College and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA 1673, MA 1677 and DD in 1694.[2]

He was appointed as:

  • Rector of Dry Drayton, Cambridge 1690–1691
  • Chaplain to the King and Queen 1690–1725
  • Rector of St Mary Magdalene, Old Fish Street 1691–1713
  • Prebendary of Lincoln 1695
  • Chancellor of Lincoln 1695–1713
  • Archdeacon of Lincoln 1709–1725
  • Dean of Peterborough 1722–1725
  • Prebendary of Westminster 1722–1725

He was appointed to the eighth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1709, and held the stall until 1722.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Sidney Leslie Ollard; Maurice Bond (1950). Fasti Wyndesorienses: the deans and canons of Windsor. Pub. for the deans and canons of St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle by Oxley.
  2. ^ "John Mandevile (MNDL670J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 30 June 2014.