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Robert Feild

English Anglican cleric

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ107271353 ↗
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Robert Feild was Archdeacon of Cleveland from 1675 until his death on 9 September 1680.

Feild was educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He became a Prebendary of York in 1670; Rector of Barton in Fabis in 1671; and a Canon of Southwell in 1676.

He was buried at York Minster.

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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—1675, 1680, 1670, 1671—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1638. For this dossier, Robert, Feild and English is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Feild” 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.