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William Short (priest)

Archdeacon of Cornwall

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ39078691 ↗
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William Short, DD (c. 1760 – 23 May 1826) was the Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1807 until his death.

Short was born in Exeter and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1778 at age 18, and graduated B.A. in 1782. He held livings at Wortley and Teignmouth.

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“William Short (priest)” enters the record as archdeacon of Cornwall. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what William, Short and priest can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “William Short (priest)” 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.