Edward Chetwynd

Edward Chetwynd (1577–1639) was an English churchman, Dean of Bristol from 1617.

Life

A native of Ingestre in Staffordshire, he entered Exeter College, Oxford, in 1592, where he graduated B.A. in 1595, M.A. in 1598, and B.D. in 1606. He was chosen lecturer to the Corporation of Abingdon in 1606, and in the following year lecturer to the Corporation of Bristol. In 1613 he was appointed Chaplain to Queen Anne of Denmark. He took the degee of D.D. in 1616, and was appointed Dean of Bristol in 1617. He also held the vicarages of Banwell in Somerset and Barclay, Gloucestershire, and was Rector of Sutton Coldfield before 1617.^[1]^[2]

He published Concio ad Clerum pro gradu habita Oxoniae 19 Dec. 1607, Oxford, and some sermons. John Chetwynd was his son; he married Helena, daughter of John Harington as his second wife in 1620.^[1]

Notes

1 2 Joseph Jackson Howard, Visitation of England and Wales vol. 30 (1893), p. 122.
↑ s:Burgess, John (1563-1635) (DNB00)

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Chetwynd, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Deans of Bristol

Early modern	William Snow John Whiteheare/Whythere George Carew Henry Joliffe John Sprint Anthony Watson Simon Robson Edward Chetwynd Matthew Nicholas Henry Glemham Richard Towgood Samuel Crossman Richard Thompson William Levett George Royse The Hon Robert Booth Samuel Creswick Thomas Chamberlayne William Warburton Samuel Squire Francis Ayscough Cutts Barton John Hallam

Late modern	Charles Layard Bowyer Sparke John Parsons Henry Beeke Thomas Musgrave John Lamb Gilbert Elliot Francis Pigou Wynne Willson Edward Burroughs Henry de Candole Harry Blackburne Evered Lunt Douglas Harrison Horace Dammers Wesley Carr Robert Grimley David Hoyle

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 246210757

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