Richard_Pilkington_(priest)

Richard Pilkington (priest)

Richard Pilkington (priest)

English Anglican priest

The Venerable Richard Pilkington D.D was an Anglican priest in England.[1]

Pilkington was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1590,[2] and Queen's College, Oxford.[3] He held livings at Hambleden and Salkeld. He was Archdeacon of Leicester from 1625 until his death in 1631.[4] He married Ann May, daughter of John May.[2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum" p250: London; British Museum ; 1819
  2. [2]
    "Pilkington, Richard (PLKN585R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. [3]
    Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Pilkington, Richard" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. [4]
    Cocks, Terence. "The Archdeacons of Leicester 1092–1992" (PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2012.
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