Samuel Berdmore (before 1693 – 24 March 1742/3Notes on the churches of Nottinghamshire: Hundred of Bingham. John Thomas Godfrey. 1907) was an English clergyman. Berdmore was the fourth son of Edward Berdmore of Worcester. He was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

. He matriculated at

Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is one of the Colleges of Oxford University, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the ...

in 1693, and gained a BA in 1697 and an MA from

King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...

in 1706. He became Vicar of

St. Mary's Church, Nottingham The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the oldest parish churchDomesday Book: A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics) of Nottingham, in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest church after the Cathedral in the city of Nottingham. The church ...

, in 1708, Prebendary of Southwell in 1713, Rector of Lambley, in 1714, of

St. Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont St Edmund's Church, Holme Pierrepont is a parish church in the Church of England in Holme Pierrepont, Nottinghamshire. The church is Grade I listed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as a building of outstanding architect ...

, in 1719, of

Cotgrave Cotgrave is a town and civil parish in the borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire, England, some 5 miles (8 km) south-east of central Nottingham. It perches on the South Nottinghamshire Wolds about 131 feet (40 metres) above sea level. ...

, Nottinghamshire, in 1722 and a Canon of York in 1735. He held several of these posts at the same time, and was onetime Chaplain to Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Family

Berdmore married Martha Scrope on 8 July 1701 at

St Mary the Virgin, Aldermanbury St Mary Aldermanbury was a parish church in the City of London first mentioned in 1181 and destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666. Rebuilt in Portland stone by Christopher Wren, it was again gutted by the Blitz in 1940, leaving only the ...

, London. The licence for this marriage was issued against the 'allegation' of a Mathew Beardmore, undoubtedly the same Mathew, lace-maker, who married Isabella Mason at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, in 1702 (and whose son, Thomas, born c. 1704, matriculated at Lincoln College in 1722 and gained his MA ten years' later), and possibly the Matthew Berdmore (or his son) who with wife Mary had a daughter Mary baptised at South Moreton, Berks, in 1679 and two Elizabeths baptised in London, one in 1681 and the second in 1686. Samuel and Martha had a number of children: * Scrope Berdmore (born 1708), baptised at

: * Edward (c.1710), baptised at

: * William (c.1712) baptised at

: * Elizabeth (c.1717) baptised at

: * Mathew (baptised at Totteridge 6 Jan 1704 and buried four days later), * Martha (c.1707), * Lucy (c.1712) * Mary (c.1714). It is possible that Berdmore married a second time, as there are a string of children of a Samuel and Elizabeth (possibly ''née'' Monille) all baptised at

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market tow ...

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The traditi ...

, between 1723 and 1738.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Berdmore, Samuel 1740s deaths Vicars of St Mary's Church, Nottingham Alumni of Merton College, Oxford People educated at Charterhouse School 18th-century English Anglican priests Year of birth uncertain