William Mostyn (priest)

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William Mostyn was a 17th-century Welsh Anglican priest.[1]

The son of Sir Roger Mostyn, M.P.,[2] he was born in Flintshire and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge.[3] He became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge in 1625; and was incorporated at Oxford in 1639.[4] He became Archdeacon of Bangor in 1633, Rector of Christleton in 1634 and Vicar of Whitford, Flintshire in 1639.

He died c. 1669/1670 at Plâs Mostyn, Wrexham.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ National Archives
  2. ^ JISC (Bangor) Mostyn Manuscripts
  3. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p221
  4. ^ 'Mordaunt-Mytton', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 1026–1049. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1026-1049 [accessed 8 March 2020]
  5. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p221


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