Jonathan Fisher (priest)

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Jonathan Parker Fisher (baptised 28 September 1757Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812 – 31 July 1838) was Archdeacon of Barnstaple"The history and description of the city of Exeter" (1806). Jenkins, A. p11: Exeter, P. Hedgeland. during 1805:Memorials of Barnstaple; being an attempt to supply the want of a history of that ancient borough (1830). Gribble, J.B.: Barnstaple, J. Avery he was later Sub-Dean of Exeter Cathedral.[https://archive.org/details/ashburtonitsneig00wortuoft Ashburton and its neighbourhood]

He was the son of Rev. John Fisher and Elizabeth Fisher. His elder brother was Rev. John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury. He was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey.{{cite book |last1= |title=Alumni Carthusiani: A Record of the Foundation Scholars of Charterhouse, 1614-1872 |date=1913 |publisher=Charterhouse School |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zahOAQAAMAAJ&dq=Jonathan+Parker+Fisher&pg=PA143|access-date=17 November 2023 |language=en}} and University College, Oxford (BA, 1778; MA, 1780; BD, 1802; DD, 1807).{{cite book |last1= |first1= |title=Alumni Oxonienses |date=1888 |publisher=Parker and Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rRc5AQAAMAAJ&dq=john+Fisher,+bishop+of+salisbury+Jonathan+Parker+Fisher&pg=PA464-IA1|page=464 |access-date=17 November 2023 |language=en}} He died at the rectory in Farringdon, Devonshire, aged 81.{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000359/18380816/024/0002 |access-date=17 November 2023 |work=Wiltshire Independent |date=16 August 1838 |page=2 |url-access=subscription}}