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Christopher Wyvill (priest)

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Christopher Wyvill, D.D. was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 18th century.[1]

The seventh son of Sir Christopher Wyvill, 3rd Baronet, M.P. for Richmond,[2] he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] He was ordained in 1678. He was a Canon of York from 1700 until his death in January 1710.

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  1. ^ "Pulpits, Politics and Public Order in England, 1760-1832 Hole,R. p117: Cambridge, CUP, 2004 ISBN 0521364868 By Robert Hole
  2. ^ John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies
  3. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iv. Saal – Zuinglius (1927) p484