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John Pretyman

Archdeacon of Lincoln

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ18385455 ↗
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John Pretyman (1753/1754 – 5 June 1817) was an Anglican priest, who served as Archdeacon of Lincoln from 1793 to 1817.

He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he started in 1774 age 20; and ordained deacon on 15 March 1778 and priest on 8 June 1780. After a curacy at Rattlesden he was Rector of Shotley from 1784 until his death on 5 June 1817.

He died on 5 June 1817.

He is also recorded as a Prebend of Aylesbury.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Pretyman” 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.