John Skelton (priest)
John Skelton was an English priest in the second half of the 17th century and the first decade of the 18th.[1]
Skelton was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford.[2] He was chaplain to Bishop Thomas Winniffe and held livings at Stixwold, , East Wickham and Walgrave. Skelton was appointed a canon of Lincoln Cathedral in 1683 and Archdeacon of Bedford in 1679, holding both positions until his death on 3 April 1704.[3]
Notes[]
- ^ Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Shield-Smethurst
- ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, p. 14
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- Archdeacons of Bedford
- 17th-century English Anglican priests
- 18th-century English Anglican priests
- 17th-century births
- 1704 deaths
- Lincoln Cathedral
- Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
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