Christopher Wyvill (priest) explained

Christopher Wyvill, D.D. was an eminent Anglican priest in the first half of the 18th century.^[1]

The seventh son of Sir Christopher Wyvill, 3rd Baronet, M.P. for Richmond,^[2] he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[3] He was ordained in 1678. He was a Canon of York from 1700 until his death in January 1710.

References

1. "Pulpits, Politics and Public Order in England, 1760-1832 Hole,R. p117: Cambridge, CUP, 2004 By Robert Hole
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=K1kBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA591 John Burke, John Bernard Burke A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies
3. [Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]