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Coppock, Thomas (bap. 1719, d. 1746), Jacobite chaplain  

Christoph v. Ehrenstein

Coppock, Thomas (bap. 1719, d. 1746), Jacobite chaplain, was born in Old Millgate, Manchester, and baptized on 13 December 1719. He was the third of four children of John Coppock, a tailor, and his wife, Esther, née Ogden, both from Manchester. In the 1730s he attended the local grammar school and in 1739 went on to ...

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Gatliff, James (1765–1831), army officer and Church of England clergyman  

Richard Sharp

Gatliff, James (1765–1831), army officer and Church of England clergyman, the son of James Gatliff of Manchester, a man of leisure, was born in Manchester on 21 December 1765. Educated at the Manchester grammar school until the age of eleven, and then at a succession of private schools, he was commissioned into the ...

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Kem, Samuel (1604–1670), Church of England clergyman and army officer  

Barbara Donagan

Kem, Samuel (1604–1670), Church of England clergyman and army officer, was born in London, the son of a cooper. Having matriculated at Oxford as a commoner of Magdalen Hall on 23 June 1621, he was elected to a demyship at Magdalen College in 1624, and graduated BA on 19 February 1625. He resigned his demyship in 1626 on being presented to a college living, and in 1628 became vicar of ...

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Mann, Michael Ashley (1924–2011), army officer and dean of Windsor  

John S. Peart-Binns

Mann, Michael Ashley (1924–2011), army officer and dean of Windsor, was born on 25 May 1924 at 41 Royal Avenue, Chelsea, London, the youngest of four sons of Herbert George Mann (d. 1955), shipbroker, and his wife, Florence Mary (May), née Kelsey (...

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Patten, Robert (fl. 1715–1718), Jacobite chaplain and writer  

Alexander Du Toit

Patten, Robert (fl. 1715–1718), Jacobite chaplain and writer, is of unknown parentage and upbringing. He had served as a curate at Penrith in Cumberland, and was occupying a similar position at Allendale in Northumberland when the 1715 Jacobite rising began. He led a party of keelmen from there to join the rebels, and on meeting a number of Scots on their way home to join the Jacobite forces persuaded them to join him. At ...