Edmund Suckling (1560–1628) was an English churchman who was

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from 1614 to his death in 1628.

Early life

Suckling was born in Norwich in 1560, the son of Robert Suckling, a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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and

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, and his first wife Elizabeth (nee Barwick).Venn, J. A., comp.. ''

Alumni Cantabrigienses ''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'' is a biographical register of former members of the University of Cambridge whic ...

''. London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954, via Ancestry. There is a large monument to his parents in St Andrew's Church, Norwich. He was educated at

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, matriculating in 1577 and graduating BA in 1581, MA in 1584 and BD in 1591.

Clerical career

He was

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of Norwich (1586) and then Rector of Ashill (1586-87),

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(1592-1608) and

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with

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(1608-14). He was

from 1614 until his death in 1628. He was succeeded as Dean of Norwich by his nephew,

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Personal life

Suckling was married to Annie, with whom he had two daughters. He was interred in

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, with a brass, although by the time of

Blomefield Rev. Francis Blomefield (23 July 170516 January 1752), FSA, Rector of Fersfield in Norfolk, was an English antiquarian who wrote a county history of Norfolk: ''An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk''. It includes d ...

(1745) the brass had been lost.Francis Blomefield, 'The city of Norwich, chapter 40: Deans, Vicars-General, or Chancellors, Archdeacons, Commissaries, Officials, and Prebends', in ''An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 3, the History of the City and County of Norwich, Part I'' (London, 1806), pp. 617-671. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol3/pp617-671 ccessed 25 August 2021

References

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