Edmund Archer, D.D. (1673–1739) was an Anglican Archdeacon in the first half of the eighteenth century.[1]

Archer was born in the parish of St Mary-at-Hill and educated at St John's College, Oxford. He held livings in Taunton, Creech St. Michael, Aisholt, Thurlbear and North Petherton. He was Archdeacon of Taunton from 1712 to 1726;[2] and then of Archdeacon of Wells until his death.[3]

References

  1. ↑ British History on-line
  2. ↑ 'Archdeacons: Taunton', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 5, Bath and Wells Diocese, ed. Joyce M Horn and Derrick Sherwin Bailey (London, 1979), pp. 16-18. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol5/pp16-18 [accessed 12 July 2017]
  3. ↑ National Archives


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