William Dillingham,

D.D. A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...

(c. 1617–1689) was an English academic in the 17th century, known as a

Neo-Latin New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ...

poet. Dillingham was born in Barnwell, Northamptonshire and educated at Oundle School. He entered

Emmanuel College, Cambridge Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican mon ...

in 1636 and graduated B.A in 1640 and M.A. in 1643. He was Fellow from 1642 until 1653, and Master from1653 to 1662. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1659 to 1660. He was

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of Odell, Bedfordshire from 1662 until his death in 1689.CCEd
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17th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Masters of Emmanuel College, Cambridge People from Northamptonshire 1689 deaths People educated at Oundle School Neo-Latin poets 17th-century writers in Latin {{UCambridge-stub