Thomas Lynford

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Thomas Lynford (died 1724)Stuart Handley, ‘Lynford, Thomas (bap. 1650, d. 1724)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, January 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17266 accessed 27 November 2012] was Archdeacon of Barnstaple."Memorials of Barnstaple; being an attempt to supply the want of a history of that ancient borough" Gribble, J.B: Barnstaple, J.Avery, 1830

He was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1670/1 and M.A. in 1674 and B.D. in 1689.{{cite web | url = http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119369| title = Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714|publisher= British History Online|accessdate = 2012-05-23}}

He was rector of St. Edmund, Lombard Street, London and chaplain in ordinary to William III and Queen Mary. He was canon of Westminster Abbey from 1700 to 1724 and archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1709 until c.1731.

He had been licensed in 1689 to marry Elizabeth Dingham of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London.