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Authorised form of nameShippen; Robert (1675 - 1745)
Dates1675 - 1745
Place of birthPrestbury, Cheshire
Date of birth1675
Place of deathSt Andrew's, Holborn, London
Date of death1745
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Brasenose College chapel, Oxford
ActivityEducation:
Stockport Grammar School; Merton College, Oxford; BA (1696); Brasenose College, Oxford; MA (1699), BD (1710), DD (1710)
Career:
Fellow of Brasenose; Professor of Music at Gresham College, London (1705-1710); Rector of Great Billing, Northamptonshire (1710-1712); Master of Brasenose (1710-1745); Rector of Whitechapel, Middlesex (1716); Vice-Chancellor of Oxford (1718-1723); Rector of Amersham, Buckinghamshire (1744)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election20/11/1706
ProposerEdward Lany
RelationshipsSon of William Shippen, DD, Rector of Stockport, Cheshire, and Kirkheaton, Yorkshire; married Frances, widow of Sir Gilbert Clerke, Kt, of Chilcote, Derbyshire, and daughter of Richard Legh of Lyme, Cheshire; succeeded as Gresham Professor by his elder brother Edward Shippen, MD
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (Shippen, William); Foster; Ward
References:
Gentleman's Magazine 1748, p614 (obituary)
London Magazine 1748, p629 (obituary)
CodeNA314
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