WILLIAMS, John (c. 1636-1709) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. c. 1636, parents unknown. educ. Magdalen Hall, Oxf. matric. 1651 or 1653, BA 1655, MA 1658; Univ. Camb. DD 1690. m. name unknown (d.1690), Add. 45511, f. 38. 1s. LPL, ms (Wake Diary) 1770, f. 54v. d. 24 Apr. 1709; admon. 10 Jan. 1710 to sis. Elizabeth Williams. TNA, PROB 6/86, f. 7v.

Offices Held

Chap. to William III and Mary II 1691 – 94.

Rect. St Peter, Paul’s Wharf, London 1660, St Mildred Poultry, London 1673 – 1700, St Mary Colechurch, London 1673; canon, St Paul’s 1683, Canterbury 1692 – 97; Busby catechetical lecturer, Westminster Abbey 1686–9; J. Williams, Brief Exposition of the Church-Catechism, with Proofs from Scripture (1689), dedication; CSP Dom. 1697, p. 29. Boyle lecturer 1695 – 96.

Commr. ecclesiastical commn. 1689, LPL, ms 1774; Lathbury, Hist. of Convocation, 321. Q. Anne’s Bounty 1705; Nicolson, London Diaries, 297. mbr. SPG 1701. CSP Dom. 1700–2, p. 358.

Parlimentarian

WILLIAMS, John (c. 1636-1709)

Associated with: Gray’ Inn, London c.1673–1709.

Likenesses

oil on canvas by unknown artist, 1696, Lambeth Palace, London.

Author

Adams, Beverly

Kilburn, Matthew

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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