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William Robert Fremantle was the
William Robert Fremantle was the Dean of Ripon
The Dean of Ripon is a senior cleric in the Church of England Diocese of Leeds. The dean is the head of the chapter at Ripon Cathedral – his predecessors were deans of the same church when it was previously the cathedral of the Diocese of Ripo ...
from 1876 until his death on 8 March 1895.
He was born on 30 August 1807 and educated at Westminster
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and Christ Church, Oxford
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. In 1828 he became a Fellow
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of Magdalen College, Oxford
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, and Curate
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of Swanbourne
Swanbourne is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. It lies about two miles (3.2 km) east of Winslow and three miles (4.8 km) west of Stewkley, on the secondary road B4032.
History
The village na ...
. He held incumbencies in Pitchcott
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and Middle Claydon
Middle Claydon is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England. The village is about south of Buckingham and about west of Winslow.
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before his elevation to the Deanery
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."A Dictionary of Universal Biography: Of All Ages and of All Peoples" Hyamson,A.M:London : Routledge & Kegan Paul ; New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., 1966
He was the brother of Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe
Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, 2nd Baron Fremantle, (11 March 1798 – 3 December 1890), known as Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bt, between 1821 and 1874, was a British Tory politician.
Early life
Cottesloe was the eldest son of A ...
, and therefore uncle of the Hon William Fremantle, who succeeded Fremantle as Dean of Ripon.
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