William Bell (priest)
William Bell (February 1625 – July 1683) was the Archdeacon of St Albans, a short distance to the north of London, between 1671 and 1683.
Life
Bell was born in February 1625 in central London. He attended Merchant Taylors' School before progressing, in 1643, to St John's College, Oxford.[1] Here he graduated in 1647 and became a fellow of the college. However, Oxford was a bastion of Royalism during the English Civil War which had ravaged the country since 1642, and after they had captured the king in 1647, an increasingly assertive parliament appointed a team of "Visitors" who descended on Oxford and expelled large numbers of academics, including Bell, from their positions.[2]
He is believed to have traveled to the European mainland in 1649, but was back in England by 1655 which was the year in which he was disqualified from a
References
- ^ British History On-line
- ^ Augustus Robert Buckland (1885). Bell, William (1625-1683). Vol. 4. Retrieved 29 May 2015.)
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