Venn: Adm. pens. ST JOHN'S 5 July 1806; re-adm. Fell.-Com. 27 Oct. 1807; younger son of James, Esq. of Soham, Cambs; born there June 1789; school Bury St Edmunds; re-adm. as 10 year man 12 June 1824. Matric. Michs. 1807. MP for Ilchester 1818-20; ord. priest (Gloucester) 19 Sep. 1824; BD Lambeth 1834; Domestic Chaplain to Duke of Grafton (p. 394) and to Duke of Cleveland 1842; V of Staindrop and R of Cockfield, Durham 1829-46; PC Darlington 1830; V of Stottesdon, Salop. 1846; R of Wem 1846-73. Married, 1819, Susannah Jenkin of Bury St Edmunds; died 1 Oct. 1873 aged 84 at Wem rectory. Brother of James Drage (1808). (WR Williams MSS; Bury St Edmunds School Reg.; PE Towell 'Members of Parliament' 1897.)
Type | Name | Date | Qualification | University | Full Record |
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Appt | Merest, John William Drage | 07/06/1834 | BD | Lambeth | View |
Type | Name | Date | Office | Event | Location | Full Record |
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Appt | Meresh, John William Drage | 04/04/1829 | Rector | Presentation | Cockfield with Vicarage Staindrop annexed/ | View |
Appt | Merest, John William Drage | 05/06/1829 | Rector | Subscription on Appointment | Cockfield/ | View |
Appt | Meresh, John William Drage | 09/12/1830 | Rector | Presentation | Cockfield with the Vicarage of Staindrop annexed/ | View |
Appt | Meresh, John William Drage | 09/12/1830 | Rector | Presentation | Cockfield with the Vicarage of Staindrop annexed/ | View |
Type | Name | Date | Office | Event | Location | Full Record |
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Appt | Meresh, John William Drage | 22/11/1830 | Perpetual Curate | Nomination | Darlington/ | View |
Appt | Merest, J. W. D. | 10/12/1830 | Perpetual Curate | Subscription on Appointment | Darlington/ | View |
Appt | Merest, J. W. D. | 10/12/1830 | Perpetual Curate | Subscription on Appointment | Darlington/ | View |