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Fposter: s. William, of Adwick-le-Street, Yorks, sacerd. Magdalen Hall, matric. 10 Oct., 1634, aged 17, B.A. 28 Nov., 1635, M.A. 26 May, 1638, created B.D. 14 April, 1648; fellow and vice-president Magdalen Coll. 1648, by the parliamentary visitors, D.D. 31 July, 1652, and possibly diplomated 3 May, 1676 (perhaps incorporated at Cambridge 1656); principal of Magdalen Hall 1648-62, Whyte's professor of moral philosophy 1649-54, commonly called 'dean Henry,' a nonconformist, preached at Buckminster, co. Leicester, at Gosfield, Essex, and at Sible Hedingham 1673, and at Great Coward, Suffolk, where he died 13 May, 1690; father of John 1662. See Ath. iv. 284; Calamy, i. 241; & Burrows, 110n, 519, 567.