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1762 Apr 15 Student at T. Hodgkinson's school, Exeter. Admitted
sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge.
1763 Matriculated
1764 Scholar
1770-1785 Rector of St Martin, Exeter.
1772 LL.B.
1773-1825 Principal Registrar & Official Principal to Exeter
Diocese. (Order made when he was a child by his Great Uncle,
Bishop George Lavington).
1774-1825 Rector Doddiscombsleigh & Combe Martin, Vicar East
Coker, Somerset, & Perpetual Curate, Topsham.
1790-1796 Minister Topsham. 1790-1796. JP of Devon.
1791 Senior Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral
1791-1825 Vicar of Topsham. N.B. This JC was NOT Chancellor
after father at Exeter but was chosen, by his uncle, Bishop
George Lavington, when this James was still a child, to be his
Principal Registrar when he was adult & the post was free.
In his grandfather James C's Will this JC is left a silver punch
ladle & a mourning ring. Have copy of this Will.
1797 Apr 6 JC assisted at installation of Bishop Courtney of
Exeter.
1798 Appointed Principal Surrogate to Archdeacon of Exeter.
1826 11 May A book of Sermons published posthumously Trewmans
for his widow. Subscriptions include Dukes of Sussex,
Gloucester & Athol & wife, Sir T.D. Acland Bt., Robert Charles
C.& Alfred Octavius C. plus Pennells & Folletts & Tuckers.
Library Ref. 4455 cc 4. British Library.
1834 Elizabeth C. of Topsham with Rosamund, Georgiana & Emily
daughters, transfer Deed to a Henry BRAND. Document at Exeter RO
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