Cayley Illingworth
FRS (11 April 1759, in
Nottingham
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– 23 August 1823, in
Scampton
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) was
Archdeacon of Stow
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History
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from 1808 until his death.
Illingworth was educated at
Pembroke College, Cambridge[ 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
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/John Archibald Venn
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Cambridge University Press
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> (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. iii. Gabb – Justamond, (1947) p514
/ref> and ordained
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at Barrow upon Humber
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, Epworth Epworth originally referred to Epworth, Lincolnshire, a town in England that was the birthplace of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, early leaders of the Methodist religious movement. The town's name has since been used for other places and instituti ...
and Scampton
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. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity
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(DD).
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1823 deaths
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