Edmund Suckling (1560–1628) was an English churchman who was

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from 1614 to his death in 1628.

Early life

Suckling was born in Norwich in 1560, the son of

Robert Suckling Robert Suckling (1520–1589), of St. Andrew's, Norwich, Norfolk, was an English politician, mercer and merchant adventurer. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich in 1571 and 1586. Life Suckling was born in 1520, the first son of Richar ...

, a

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(MP) for

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and

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, and his first wife Elizabeth (nee Barwick).Venn, J. A., comp.. '' Alumni Cantabrigienses''. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954, via Ancestry. There is a large monument to his parents in

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. He was educated at

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, matriculating in 1577 and graduating BA in 1581, MA in 1584 and BD in 1591.

Clerical career

He was Precentor of Norwich (1586) and then Rector of Ashill (1586-87),

Larling Larling is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Roudham and Larling, in the Breckland district, in the county of Norfolk, England. The village is 8.5 miles east north east of Thetford, 21.4 miles west south west of Norwich and 9 ...

(1592-1608) and

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with

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(1608-14). He was

from 1614 until his death in 1628. He was succeeded as Dean of Norwich by his nephew,

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Personal life

Suckling was married to Annie, with whom he had two daughters. He was interred in Norwich Cathedral, with a brass, although by the time of

Blomefield Rev. Francis Blomefield (23 July 170516 January 1752), FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: ''An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk''. It includes d ...

(1745) the brass had been lost.Francis Blomefield, 'The city of Norwich, chapter 40: Deans, Vicars-General, or Chancellors, Archdeacons, Commissaries, Officials, and Prebends', in ''An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 3, the History of the City and County of Norwich, Part I'' (London, 1806), pp. 617-671. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol3/pp617-671 ccessed 25 August 2021

References

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