Whittington Landon
Whittington Landon (c. 1758 – 29 December 1838) was an academic at the
Life
Whittington Landon, the son of John Landon from
Landon was also an ordained priest in the Church of England. He was rector of the Herefordshire parish of Croft with Yarpole from 1796 until his death in 1838.[2] He added the positions of prebendary of Norwich (1811 to 1813) and of Salisbury (1821 until his death; he was vicar of the prebendary parish of Bishopstone, near Swindon from 1822 to 1826).[3] He was Dean of Exeter (1813 until his death), and vicar of Branscombe, Devon (1827 to 1830).[2]
His son J. W. R. Landon was also ordained, and followed Landon as vicar of Bishopstone.[3] Landon was the uncle of the poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the daughter of his older brother John. Letitia's brother Whittington was named after him.
References
- ^ a b Salter, H. E.; Lobel, Mary D., eds. (1954). "Gloucester Hall and Worcester College". A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford. Victoria County History. pp. 298–309. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b Baggs, A. P.; Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H. (1983). "Parishes: Bishopstone". In Crowley, D. A. (ed.). A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 12: Ramsbury and Selkley Hundreds; the Borough of Marlborough. Victoria County History. University of London. pp. 3–12. Retrieved 11 September 2023 – via British History Online.