About John Gordon
Lived 1726 – 1793 (aged 66–67). John Gordon was a British priest.
John Gordon (1726–1793) was an Anglican priest. He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge and ordained in 1752. He was Rector of Henstead, Suffolk from 1758 to 1793; Prebend of Aylesbury 1766 to 1769; Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln from 1765 to 1775; Archdeacon of Buckingham from 1766 to 1769; and Archdeacon of Lincoln from 1769 to 1793; and Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral from 1775 to 1793. He died on 5 January 1793.
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English archdeacon, born 1726
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