Nasmith, James (1764-1796)

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Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Jan. 23, 1760. Of Norwich. [S. of –, carrier between Norwich and London. B. 1740, at Norwich. Schools, Norwich and Amsterdam.] ' Matric. Michs. 1760; Scholar; B.A. (6th Wrangler) 1764; M.A. 1767; D.D. 1797. Fellow, 1765. Junior Proctor, 1771-2. Ord. deacon (Lichfield and Coventry, Litt. dim. from Norwich) Dec. 18, 1763; priest (Norwich) June 8, 1766. C. of Yaxham, Norfolk, 1763. Minister of Hinxton, Cambs. R. of Snailwell, 1773-96. F.S.A., 1769. Compiled a Catalogue of Archbishop Parker's MSS., and presented the volume to the College after 5 years' work, in February 1775. Afterwards, ‘in the astonishingly short space of 3 years,’ completed the catalogue of the MSS. at the University Library. Refused the Mastership of his College in 1778, being then occupied with improving his living of Snailwell and with farming. Chaplain to the Earl of Buckinghamshire. R. of Leverington, Cambs., 1796-1808. Chairman of the County Sessions for many years. Married, 1774, Susan, dau. of the Rev. John Salmon, R. of Shelton, Norfolk. Edited Tanner's Notitia Monastica. Died Oct. 16, 1808, aged 67; buried in Leverington church. M.I. (Crockford; Lamb. H. W. Saunders; D.N.B.; Cole; C. Sayle; Annals of Cambridge University Library, 106 and 110; G. Mag., 1808, II. 958.)

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