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Ralph Pickover

English priest died in the early 1600s

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ91250683 ↗
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Ralph Pickover (died in 1614/1615) was an English priest.

Pickover was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He held livings at Ludgershall and Winterbourne Cherborough. He was archdeacon of Rochester from 1576 to 1584; and archdeacon of Sarum from 1585 until his death on 8 March 1614/1615.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1614, 1615, 1576, 1584—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ralph, Pickover and English providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ralph Pickover” 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.