David Trimnel,
D.D.
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In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...
(b
Abbots Ripton
Abbots Ripton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Abbots Ripton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being an historic county of England. Abbots Ripton lies ap ...
15 September 1675 – d
Stoke Hammond
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The village was first recorded in the Domesda ...
18 May 1756) was an English priest.
Trimnel was educated at
New College, Oxford
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. He was
Rector
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Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of
Nuneham Courtney
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Geography
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from 1660. He was appointed
Archdeacon of Leicester
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History
The first archdeacon of Leicester is recorded before 1092 – around the time when archdeacons were first appointed in England ...
in 1715 and
Precentor
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of
Lincoln Cathedral
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in 1718,
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1756 deaths
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Archdeacons of Leicester
18th-century English Anglican priests
1675 births
People from Huntingdonshire
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