Thomas Anyan,
D.D.
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was an
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Anyan was born in
Kent and educated at
Lincoln College, Oxford
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at
Beckenham,
Ashtead,
Checkendon
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History
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and
Cranleigh. Anyan was
President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1614 until 1629. He died at
Canterbury in 1632.
["A History of the University of Oxford Including the Lives of the Founders" Chalmers, A. p480: Oxford; Collingwood & Co;1810]
References
1632 deaths
Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
Presidents of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
17th-century English Anglican priests
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