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Absalom Hurley (or Hurly)

1725–87

Clergyman. Educated at Pembroke and Balliol Colleges, Oxford; BA, 1748. Curate of Kentish Town, Middlesex. Rector of Barnard Sutton, Buckinghamshire, when he made his will in 1768; of Hayes, Bedfordshire, when he died.

Sources

Alum. Oxon.

BLC

England, births and christenings, 1538–1975 (Ancestry.com, accessed 5 December 2018)

Prerogative Court of Canterbury will registers (The National Archives: Public Record Office PROB 11/1154/299)

Watt 1824.

Bibliography

Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.

BLC: The British Library general catalogue of printed books to 1975. 360 vols. and supplement (6 vols.). London: Clive Bingley; K. G. Saur. 1979–88.

Watt, Robert. 1824. Bibliotheca Britannica; or, a general index to British and foreign literature. 4 vols. Edinburgh: A. Constable & Company.

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