Person: Cleeve, Alexander (1770 - 1805)

• Comments

  VENN
  Adm. sizar at CORPUS CHRISTI, July 6, 1767. Of London. S. of John, gent., of St Margaret's, Westminster. B. there May 7, 1747. School, Eton. ' Matric. Michs. 1767; B.A. 1771. Previously at Oxford; matric. (Queen's College) Mar. 22, 1766, age 18. Ord. deacon (London) June 10, 1770; Chaplain to the County gaol, Cambridge. V. of Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, 1773-80. V. of Wooler, Northumberland, 1780-1805. One of the leaders in the movement for square caps. ‘Penner of the address and the supposed author of an ingenious though very severe tract, called Somnium Academia, published just at the election of the Chancellor, whose character is not special in the performance’ (Cole, MS., 41, 397, 398). Died Sept. 23, 1805, at Knightsbridge, where he had a chapel. (Al. Oxon.; Eton Coll. Reg.; G. Mag., 1805, II. 974; Scott, MSS.)

Education Events

• BA : Cambridge / Corpus Christi

  Type	Name	Date	Qualification	University	Full Record
  Ord	Cleeve, Alexander	10/06/1770	BA	Cambridge	View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	26/05/1771	BA		View
  Ord	Cleeve, Alexander	26/05/1771	BA		View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	08/05/1773	BA		View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	08/05/1773	BA		View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	31/01/1780	BA		View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	31/01/1780	BA		View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	31/01/1780	BA		View

Ordination Events

• deacon : 10/06/1770 (Terrick, Richard/London 1764-1777)

  Type	Name	Date	Status	Event	Full Record
  Ord	Cleeve, Alexander	10/06/1770	deacon	ordination	View

• priest : 26/05/1771 (Thomas, John/Winchester 1761-1781)

  Type	Name	Date	Status	Event	Full Record
  Ord	Cleeve, Alexander	26/05/1771	priest	ordination	View

Appointment Events

• Curate : Horley (26/05/1771 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	26/05/1771	Curate	Licensing	Horley/	View

• Vicar : Stockton upon Tees (08/05/1773 - 31/01/1780 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	08/05/1773	Vicar	Collation	Stockton upon Tees/	View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	08/05/1773	Vicar	Appointment	Stockton/	View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	31/01/1780	Vicar	Resignation	Stockton/	View
  Vac	Cleeve, Alexander	31/01/1780	Vicar	resignation	Stockton/	View

• Vicar : Wooler (31/01/1780 - 22/10/1805 )

  Type	Name	Date	Office	Event	Location	Full Record
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	31/01/1780	Vicar	Appointment	Wooler/	View
  Appt	Cleeve, Alexander	31/01/1780	Vicar	Collation	Wooler/	View
  Vac	Cleeve, Alexander	22/10/1805	Vicar	Death	Wooler/	View

Death Events

• Death (22/10/1805)

  Name	Date	Cause	Type	Full Record
  Cleeve, Alexander	22/10/1805	Death	Vac	View