Fitzherbert Adams

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Fitzherbert Adams (1651—June 17, 1719), D.D. a man of learning, and benefactor of the University of Oxford, was born in 1651, and educated at Lincoln College, where he took his master's degree, June 4, 1675; that of Bachelor of Divinity, January 23; and doctor of divinity, July 3, 1685. He was inducted to the rectory of Waddington, September 29, 1683; and elected Rector of Lincoln College, May 2, 1685. The same year he was installed a prebendary of the sixth stall, Durham, was removed to the tenth in 1695, and from that to the eleventh, in 1711. He served the office of vice-chancellor in 1695, and died June 17, 1719.^[1]

As Rector of Lincoln, he held the living of Twyford, Buckinghamshire; and having received £1,500 for renewing the lease, he laid out the whole in beautifying the chapel of his college, and the Rector's lodgings. He bequeathed his library also to the college, and was a benefactor to All Saints Church, Oxford, where he lies buried, contributing £200 to purchase a parsonage house.^[1]

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1. ^ ^{a b} Chalmers, Alexander. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. new ed. rev. and enl. London: Nichols [et al.], 1812-1817. 32 vols.