Person: Downes, John (1760 - 1816)

• Comments

  VENN
  Adm. sizar (age 20) at SIDNEY, July 4, 1757. 2nd s. of John (1708), R. of St Michael's, Wood Street, London. B. there [between Apr. 1738 and Apr. 1739]. School, Westminster. ' Matric. Michs. 1757; Scholar, 1758; B.A. 1761. Ord. deacon, 1761; priest (London) Dec. 19, 1762; C. of Teddington, Middlesex, 1761-2. Assistant Minister (a freehold) of Sheffield Parish Church, 1766-74. R. of Tatsfield, Surrey, 1766-1816. Non-resident over almost the whole period. C. of Titsey, 1766-75 (non-resident after 1775). Is said later to have lived at Kensington Gravel Pits, and afterwards at The Hyde, Middlesex. (A John D., B.A., was R. of Buckland Filleigh, Devon, in 1803.) Married, Apr. 5, 1762, Sarah Elizabeth Sparrow. Died Aug. 3, 1816, aged 78, at Finchley, Middlesex, where he had lived for some years. Buried there. M.I. Will, P.C.C., Wynne, 480 (1816). Half-brother of Henry (1740); uncle of William H. (1811). (Record of Old Westminsters; P. E. Towell.)

Education Events

• BA : Cambridge / Sidney

  Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
  Ord	Downes, John	19/12/1762	BA	Cambridge	View
  Appt	Downes, John	20/03/1766	BA		View

Ordination Events

• deacon : 21/12/1760 (Keene, Edmund/Chester 1752-1771)

• priest : 19/12/1762 (Osbaldeston, Richard/London 1762-1764)

  Type	Name	Date	Status	Event	Full Record
  Ord	Downes, John	19/12/1762	priest	ordination	View

Appointment Events

• Curate : Harmondsworth and West Drayton (19/12/1762 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Downes, John	19/12/1762	Curate	Licensing	Harmondsworth/	View
  Sub	Downes, John	19/12/1762	Curate		Harmondsworth/	View

• Rector : Tatsfield (20/03/1766 - 16/12/1816 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Downes, John	20/03/1766	Rector	Admission	Tatsfield/	View
  Vac	Downes, John	16/12/1816	Rector	Death	Tattersfield/	View

Death Events

• Death (16/12/1816)

  Name	Date	Cause	Type	Full Record
  Downes, John	16/12/1816	Death	Vac	View