Richard Barber (priest)

Richard Barber DCL was an English priest in 16th-century.[1]

A Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford,[2] he was appointed Vicar choral of Chichester Cathedral in 1541; Vicar of the College of Windsor in 1543, a Canon of Lincoln Cathedral in 1552; Rector of Wappenham in 1553; Archdeacon of Bedford in 1559;[3] Archdeacon of Leicester[4] in 1560;[5] Warden of All Souls in 1565; Rector of Harrietsham in Kent, 1570, and of Hanborough in 1572; Treasurer and Canon of Lichfield Cathedral in 1574; and Rector of Yoxall in 1575. He died on 15 February 1590.

Notes
  1. "Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: Tales of Discord and Dissension" Cressy, D p290: Oxford; OUP; 2000 ISBN 0-19-820781-6
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Baal-Barrow
  3. Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, p. 14
  4. University of Leicester
  5. Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Leicester . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 59–63  – via Wikisource.


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