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In VENN
Adm. pens. (age 19) at PETERHOUSE, June 29, 1749. S. of Joseph Pote, bookseller and publisher at Eton (for whom see D.N.B.). Bapt. at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, Feb. 1, 1729-30. School, Eton. Scholar of King's, 1750; B.A. 1755-6; M.A. 1759. Fellow of King's, 1752. Ord. deacon (Ely) Mar. 18, 1753; priest (Bishop of Chester) at Cambridge, Mar. 24, 1754. Chaplain at Rotterdam. R. of Milton, Gravesend, 1766-97. R. of St Margaret's, Lothbury, 1766-8; of St George's, Southwark, 1768-97. Preb. of Lichfield, 1769-97. Died July 29, 1797. Buried at Milton. M.I. (Harwood; Le Neve, Fasti, calls him "James")
FIelding (1910) gives MI: 'Near this place are interred the remains of Revd. Joseph Pote, 30 years rector of this parish; he departed this life July 27 1797, aged 65 years.'