William Washbourne M.A. (1617 - 1675)

Born 1617 in Wichenford Court, Wichenford, Worcestershire, England

Ancestors

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Rev William Washbourne was a member of the aristocracy in England.

Biography

William, born about 1616, matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, June 15th, 1632, aged fifteen. He graduated B.A. April 22nd, 1634, and M.A. July 2nd, 1639, having become, February 15th, 1637-8, a student of Gray's Inn. In 1636 he was elected Fellow of Oriel, and in May, 1648, gave the following answer to the Parliamentary Visitors : "Were I sufficiently perswaded that I might submitt to this Visitation salva conscientia I should readily obay it : but not beinge satisfied herein I cannot at present give any fuller Answere." His name appears among those who were expelled, but he was one of those "who afterwards made their Peace with the Visitors and returned to their Fellowships some sooner some later." (Walker's Sufferings, ii. 132.) Wood, speaking of him and others, says, "Though they did not directly submit yet the greater part of them kept their places by the same means that others did." (Annals.)

In 1656 he became vicar of St. Mary's, Oxford (Al. Ox.), and in 1669 he joined his elder brother Thomas as Prebendary of Gloucester, where he was buried Decem ber 1st, 1675, dying unmarried. The tablet to him, alongside of that to his brother, has the family arms above it with a mullet, and is thus inscribed :—

Sacrum Memoriae

Viri admodum Reverendi

Guilielmi Washbourn Art. M :

Eccl : Cath : Glouc : dignissimi Prebendarii

Coll : Orielensis Oxon Socii et Ornamenti :

Qui, post Vitam Summa cum animi

Erga

Deum pietate, Ecclesiam Anglicanam

Fidemq Catholicam Constantia,

Amicos Fidelitate,

Egenos minime mendicantes charitate,

Name

Name: Rev. William (M.A.) /Washbourne/ - "Fellow of Oriel"

Prebendary of Gloucester

Vicar of St Mary's, Oxford

Canon of Gloucester

• Oxford Alumni:

7th son of John of Wickenford, Worcs., arm., BALLIOL matric. 15 June 1632 aged 15; BA 22 Apr. 1634; fellow ORIEL 1636; MA 2 July 1639; student of Grays Inn 1638; V of St Mary's, Oxford 1656; canon of Gloucester 1669 until his death 28 Nov. 1675; will & admon. at Oxford 4 Dec. 1675

Sources

• The Washbourne Family of Little Washbourne and Wichenford - pp. 127 - 129

• British History Online Oxford Alumni

Acknowledgements

Washbourne-84 was created by Rev. Daniel Washburn Jones through the import of Chester Southworth Washburn & Family_2015-01-02.ged on Jan 2, 2015.