Charles Tarrant (1723–1791) was an
Anglican priest
A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in partic ...
.
Tarrant was educated at
Balliol College, Oxford. He held incumbencies at
North Tidworth, the
City of Westminster,
Staines,
Bloomsbury,
Lamberhurst
Lamberhurst ( is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England. The parish contains the hamlets of The Down and Hook Green. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 1,491, increasing to 1,706 at the 2011 Census.
...
and
Wrotham
Wrotham ( ) is a village on the Pilgrims' Way in Kent, England, at the foot of the North Downs. It is north of Borough Green and approximately east of Sevenoaks. It is between the M20 and M26 motorways.
History
The name first occurs as ''U ...
. He was
Dean of Carlisle during 1764; and then
Dean of Peterborough
The Dean of Peterborough is the head of the chapter at Peterborough Cathedral. On the Dissolution of Peterborough Abbey in 1539 and the abbey-church's refoundation as a cathedral for the new bishop and diocese of Peterborough, care for the abbey ...
until his death on 22 February 1791.
['Deans', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 8, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses, ed. Joyce M Horn (London, 1996), pp. 118-122 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol8/pp118-122 ccessed 22 March 2015]
References
1723 births
1791 deaths
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
Deans of Carlisle
Deans of Peterborough
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