Giles Lawrence

Giles Lawrence, DCL was an English Anglican priest in the 16th century.[1]

Lawrence was born in Gloucestershire and educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[2] He was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1548 to 1553. He held livings in Minety, Chalgrove and Rickmansworth. Lawrence was Archdeacon of Wilts from 1564 to 1577;[3] and Archdeacon of St Albans from 1581 to 1582.[4]

Notes

  1.  "Lawrence, Giles". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714 Labdon-Ledsam
  3. Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 3, p. 59
  4. Horn, Joyce M. (1986), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 6, pp. 18–19
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