William Read (priest)

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William Read was Archdeacon of Barnstaple""Who Wrote Eikōn Basilikē?" Considered and Answered: In Two Letters" Wordsworth, C p90: London, John Murray, 1824 from 1679 until 1703."Memorials of Barnstaple; being an attempt to supply the want of a history of that ancient borough" Gribble, J.B: Barnstaple, J. Avery, 1830

Read was educated at Exeter College, Oxford.[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1227-1250 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Rabbetts-Rhodes] He became Rector of Drewsteignton in 1660; and a Canon of Exeter Cathedral in 1662. In 1680 he became Rector of St Michael the Archangel's Church, Chagford.[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1227-1250 British History On-line]