Christopher Wyvill,

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was an eminent

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in the first half of the 18th century. The seventh son of

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, M.P. for Richmond,John Burke, John Bernard Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies''
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. 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

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(10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iv. Saal – Zuinglius (1927) p484
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in 1678. He was a Canon of

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from 1700 until his death in January 1710.

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Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Deans of Ripon Year of birth unknown 1710 deaths Anglican clergy from London Archdeacons of the East Riding {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub