Fitzherbert Adams D.D. (1651 – 17 June 1719) was a man of learning, and benefactor of the

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. Adams was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he took his

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degree on 4 June 1675, that of Bachelor of Divinity on 23 January, and Doctor of Divinity on 3 July 1685. He was inducted to the rectory of Waddington,

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, on 29 September 1683, and elected

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of Lincoln College on 2 May 1685. The same year, he was installed a

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of the sixth stall,

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, was removed to the tenth in 1695, and from that to the eleventh, in 1711. He served the office of

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during 1695–7, and died on 17 June 1719.Chalmers, Alexander. ''The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time''. new ed. rev. and enl. London: Nichols

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1812–1817. 32 vols. As Rector of Lincoln College, he held the living of

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; and having received £1,500 for renewing the lease, he laid out the whole in beautifying the chapel of his

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, and the Rector's lodgings. He bequeathed his library also to the College, and was a benefactor to All Saints Church, Oxford, where he lies buried, contributing £200 to purchase a parsonage house.

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