Rev.Dr. James Tunstall 1708 - 1762
Rev.Dr. James Tunstall , Venn's entry reads: TUNSTALL, JAMES College: ST JOHN'S Entered: 1724 Born: 1708 Died: Mar. 28, 1762 Adm. sizar (age 16) at ST JOHN'S, June 29, 1724. S. of James, attorney, of Richmondshire. B. 1708, at Aysgarth, Yorks. School, Slaidburn. Matric. 1724; B.A. 1727-8; M.A. 1731; B.D. 1738; D.D. 1744. Fellow, 1729-48. Public orator, 1741-6. Incorp. at Oxford, 1742. Ord. priest (Lincoln) Mar. 5, 1731-2. R. of Sturmer, Essex, 1739-46. Domestic chaplain to Archbishop Potter, 1743. Canon and treasurer of St David's, 1746. V. of Minster, Thanet, Kent, 1747. R. of Gt Chart, 1747-57. V. of Rochdale, Lancs., 1757-62. Married Elizabeth, dau. of John Dodsworth, of Thornton Watlass, Sept. 6, 1750. Classical scholar. Author, miscellaneous. Died Mar. 28, 1762. Buried at St Peter's,Cornhill, London. Will (P.C.C.) 1763. (D.N.B.; Al. Oxon.) Collated by Archibishop Hutton to Rochdale in 1757.
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| Born: Aysgarth, Yorks., , England 1708 | Baptised:
| | Died: 28th Mar 1762 | Buried: St Peters, Cornhill, London, , , England 1762
| | Family: Tunstall |
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