Richard Pilkington (priest)

The Venerable Richard Pilkington D.D was an Anglican priest in England during the 17th Century.[1]

Pilkington was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1790,[2] and Queen's College, Oxford.[3] He held livings at Hambleden and Salkeld. He was Archdeacon of Leicester from 1625 until his death in 1631.[4] He married Ann May, daughter of John May.[2]

Notes

1. "Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum" p250: London; British Museum ; 1819
2. "Pilkington, Richard (PLKN585R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. Foster, Joseph (1891–1892). "Pilkington, Richard". Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co. – via British History Online.
4. Cocks, Terence. "The Archdeacons of Leicester 1092–1992" (PDF). Retrieved 15 January 2012.
   • Le Neve, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Leicester . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 59–63  – via Wikisource.