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Authorised form of nameRandolph; John (1749 - 1813); Bishop of London
Other forms of surname'John Bangor'
'John London'
Dates1749 - 1813
NationalityBritish
Date of birth06 July 1749
Place of deathMuch Hadham, Hertfordshire
Date of death28 July 1813
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
By the side of Bishop Gibson in Fulham churchyard, London
ActivityEducation:
Westminster School; Christ Church, Oxford. BA (1771), MA (1774), BD (1782), DD (1783, by diploma)
Career:
Tutor and Censor, (1779-1783), also Proctor (1781), Christ Church, Oxford; Professor of Poetry, Oxford University (1776-1783); Regius Professor of Greek (1782-1783); Professor of Moral Philosophy (1782-1786); Prebendary of Chute and Chisenbury, Salisbury Cathedral (1782-1783); Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford (1783); Canon, Christ Church Cathedral (1783); Rector of Ewelme (1783); Sinecure Rector of Darowen, Montgomeryshire (1797-1800); Bishop of Oxford (1799-1807); Bishop of Bangor (1807-1809); Bishop of London (1809); Governor of the Charterhouse; PC (1809); died as a result of suffering an attack of apoplexy whilst on horseback, during a visit to his son in Much Hadham
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/12/1811
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Randolph, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; married (1785) Jane, daughter of Thomas Lambard of Sevenoaks, Kent
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA8326
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