William Towers ,

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 ...

(20 January 1681– 1 March 1745) was a priest and academic in the eighteenth century. Towers was born in

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. He was educated at

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, graduating

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in 1701 and MA in 1704. He became

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of Christ's in 1702; and was

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from 1723 until his death. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1734 to 1735.University web-site
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at Caldecote and

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. He was

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to King George II from 1727 until 1732.

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Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Masters of Christ's College, Cambridge 1745 deaths 1681 births People from King's Lynn 18th-century English Anglican priests Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge {{UCambridge-stub