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English clergyman
The Venerable John William Sheringham (20 February 1820 - 6 February 1904) was an English clergyman.
Born in
Hanwell , Sheringham was educated at
St John's College, Cambridge .
[1] After a
curacy at St Barnabas,
Kensington , he was
Vicar of
Strood, Kent , from 1848 to 1864 and of
Standish with
Hardwicke , Gloucestershire, from 1864 to 1889.
[2]
In 1881 he was appointed
Archdeacon of Gloucester , a position he held until his retirement in 1902.
[3]
[4]
Sheringham died in Gloucester in 1904. He was the father-in-law of the civil servant
Sir Edward Wingfield .
References
^
Venn, John &
Venn, John Archibald .
Alumni Cantabrigienses : A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the
University of Cambridge , from the Earliest Times to 1900,
Cambridge University Press Part II vol. v p494
^
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p1226: London, Horace Cox, 1898
^
National Archives
^ 'SHERINGHAM, Ven. John William', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014
accessed 29 Jan 2017
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