D.D.
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was
Bishop of St Asaph
The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph.
The diocese covers the counties of Conwy county borough, Conwy and Flintshire, Wrexham county borough, the eastern part of Merioneth in Gwynedd and part of northern Powys. The ...
from 1513 until 1518.Hardy, T. Duffus. ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae; or, a Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from the Earliest Times to the Year MDCCXV, Corrected and Continued to the Present Time,'' Vol. I, " St. Asaph's". Oxford Univ. Press, 1854. Accessed 06 Jan 2018.
Birkhead was born in
Cheshire
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and educated at the
University of Cambridge
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. He was buried at
Wrexham
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John Venn
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John Archibald Venn
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Cambridge University Press
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