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British bishop (died 1799)
Edward Smallwell (c.1720–1799) was an
English
bishop of St David's and
bishop of Oxford.
Life
He was chaplain to
George III in 1766, made canon of
Christ Church, Oxford, in 1775, and obtained the degree of D.D. He was appointed in 1783 as bishop of
St David's,
[1] and was then translated to
Oxford in 1788.
[2]
[3] He was also rector of
Batsford in
Gloucestershire. He died at his palace at
Cuddesdon.
References
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^ Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
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^
Bishops of Oxford
Archived 2010-01-28 at the
Wayback Machine.
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^ Joyce M. Horn,
Bishops, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: volume 8: Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough dioceses, 1996, pp. 75–80.
Bibliography
- John Britton (1821), The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Oxford, p. 32.
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