The Ven The Venerable (''venerabilis'' in Latin) is a style, a title, or an epithet which is used in some Western Christian churches, or it is a translation of similar terms for clerics in Eastern Orthodoxy and monastics in Buddhism. Christianity Cathol ...

William Richards (1643–1712) was Archdeacon of Berkshire from 1689 until 1698. He matriculated from

All Souls' College, Oxford All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of t ...

in 1660; and became its

Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...

. He was Rector of Heythrop from 1675; and

Vicar A vicar (; Latin: ''vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pref ...

St Giles' Church, Reading St Giles' Church is a Church of England parish church in the town of Reading in the English county of Berkshire. History St Giles' was one of the three original parish churches, along with St Mary's and St Laurence's, serving the medieval boro ...

from 1678. He died on 4 October 1712.'Riader-Roissie', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 (1891), pp. 1250-1277. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119383 Date accessed: 09 October 2013

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1643 births Alumni of All Souls College, Oxford Archdeacons of Berkshire 1712 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub