William Busby (priest) explained

William Busby
Birth Date:	1757

William Beaumont Busby^[1] (1757 – 31 August 1820) was Dean of Rochester^[2] from 1808^[3] to 1820.

He was born in 1757 and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford.^[4] Appointed 43rd Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons by Speaker Henry Addington in 1796,^[5] he was Rector of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire, and then Canon of the First Stall, St George's Chapel, Windsor, from 1803 to 1808 before his elevation to the Deanery.^[6]

He died on 31 August 1820.^[7]

Notes and References

1. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=051-dra&cid=-1#-1 National Archives
2. http://cityark.medway.gov.uk/query/results/?DateList=&PathList=&SearchWords=borough&Verbose=no&Boolean=&Mode=Search&IDX=350 Medway Records
3. The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland, &c. (Lancaster, England), Saturday, 26 March 1808; Issue 354. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.
4. Web site: William Beaumont Busby. https://web.archive.org/web/20120325162242/http://lloydsantiques.com/williambusbypiece.html. 25 March 2012.
5. Book: Gray, Donald. 1991. Chaplain to Mr Speaker: The Religious Life of the House of Commons. H.M. Stationery Office . 9780108506345. 18 May 2020.
6. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=34680 British History on-line
7. Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries. The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser, for Lancashire, Westmorland, &c. (Lancaster, England), Saturday, 23 September 1820; Issue 1005. 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II.