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Adm. sizar (age 18) at CHRIST'S, May 14, 1763. S. of [the Rev.] Richard (1731; CCE19043). B. Apr. 14, 1744, at Condover, Salop. School, Shrewsbury. ' Matric. Michs. 1763; Scholar, 1764; LL.B. 1769. Ord. deacon (Lichfield) 1766; priest (Chester) 1768; C. of Rochdale (to the Rev. Thomas Wray, of Christ's), 1766-71. C. of Saddleworth, Yorks., 1771-6. V. of Sittingbourne, Kent, 1776. V. of Cranbrook with Appledore, and Ebony St Mary, 1777; resigned Appledore before Sept. 1782. Brother of Robert B. (1779; CCE19044). (Peile, II. 275; Cant. Act Book.)
See MA Smith, 'The Reception of Richard Podmore: Anglicanism in Saddleworth 1700-1830', in J Walsh, C Haydon and SJC Taylor (eds), THe Church of England 1688-1833: From Toleration to Tractarianism (CUP 1993)