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Clement Breton

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Clement Breton D.D. was an English priest in the 17th century.[1]

Breton was born in Uppingham and educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,[2] He was ordained in 1631 and held the living at Church Langton until his ejection in 1642. He was reinstated in 1660.[3] Breton was Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1661 to 1662;[4] and Archdeacon of Leicester from 1662[5] until his death in 1669.

Notes

  1. ^ "Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica: Antiquities in Leicestershire, Volume 7" p467: London; J.Nichols; 1790
  2. ^ 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, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1209-1751 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p211
  3. ^ University of Leicester
  4. ^ Joyce M., Horn; Smith, David M. (1975), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 4, pp. 16–18
  5. ^ Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Leicester . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 59–63  – via Wikisource.