Henry Bland (priest)

Henry Bland (circa 1677 – 24 May 1746) was an English cleric.[1]

He was born around 1667 in Yorkshire and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.[2] He was Rector of Great Bircham, Norfolk from 1706 to 1744[3] and of Harpley, Norfolk, 1715 to 1744; an Honorary Chaplain to the King and Chaplain to the Royal Chelsea Hospital from 1716;[4] Headmaster of Doncaster School[5] from 1699 to 1710 and then of Eton College from 1719;[6] and Canon of Windsor from 1723 to 1733.[7]

In later life he was Dean of Durham from 1728 to 1746[8] and Provost of Eton College[9] from 1732 to 1746.[10]

He died on 24 May 1746.[11]

References

  1. ↑ ECCO TCP
  2. ↑ "Bland, Henry (BLNT695H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ "Bland, Henry (1706–1746)". The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835. CCEd Person ID 44055. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "The Historical Register Vol XIII" London, R.Nutt, 1728
  5. ↑ "General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical" Aikin, J; Johnston, W; Morgan, T: Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute, 1804
  6. ↑ College web-site
  7. ↑ Fasti Wyndesoriensis. The Deans and Canons of St. George's Chapel. Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle Volume 8. The Revd. Canon S. L. Ollard. 1950.
  8. ↑ Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M., eds. (2004), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 11, pp. 77–81
  9. ↑ OODWOC
  10. ↑ London Gazette
  11. ↑ Venn database[link removed]
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