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John Burton (archdeacon of Cleveland)

former Archdeacon of Cleveland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ55615140 ↗
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John Burton was Archdeacon of Cleveland from his installation on 23 July 1685 until his death on 24 November 1700.

Burton was born in Sedbergh was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He migrated to University of Oxford in 1675. He was Vicar of Rushden and a canon of York.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “John Burton (archdeacon of Cleveland)” is former Archdeacon of Cleveland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through John, Burton and archdeacon, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1685, 1700, 1675—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, John, Burton and archdeacon is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “John Burton (archdeacon of Cleveland)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.