About Stephen Whisson
Lived 1710 – 1783 (aged 72–73). Stephen Whisson was a librarian.
Stephen Whisson (1710 – 3 November 1783) was a tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and coached 72 students in the 1744–1754 period.
Biography Wisson was from St Neots, Huntingdonshire and was the son of a publican. In 1735, he matriculated from Wakefield School, Yorkshire.
On 29 November 1734, he was admitted as a sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming a scholar in 1738.
Timeline 1738/9 BA 1742 MA 1761 BD 1741 Fellow of Trinity 1744 Taxor 1751–83 Cambridge University Librarian 1752–80 Senior bursar 1757–58 Senior proctor 1739 ordained deacon 1741 priest 1746 – Vicar of Babraham, Cambridgeshire. 1753–71 Rector of Shimpling, Norfolk. 1771–83 Rector of Orwell, Cambridgeshire. 1783 Buried in Trinity Chapel.
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English librarian
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Stephen Whisson was born in 1710 in St Neots.
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Stephen Whisson died on 3 November 1783 in Cambridge.
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Stephen Whisson was a librarian.
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