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Gilbert Heathcote (5 February 1765 – 19 October 1829) was
Archdeacon of Winchester from 1819 until his death.
The fifth son of
Sir Thomas Heathcote, 2nd Baronet (of Hursley) by his second wife, Anne Tollett, he was educated at
Winchester College
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and
New College, Oxford
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.
He held livings at
Hursley
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and
Andover
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; and was appointed
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Wells
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in 1814.
He died on 19 October 1829. Two of his sons, Gilbert Wall Heathcote and William Beadon Heathcote, became Anglican clergymen.
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1775 births
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Archdeacons of Winchester (ancient)
1829 deaths
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