John Pretyman (1753/1754 – 5 June 1817) was an Anglican priest,National Archives who served as Archdeacon of Lincoln from 1793 to 1817.
He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he started in 1774 age 20; and ordained deacon on 15 March 1778 and priest on 8 June 1780. After a curacy at Rattlesden he was Rector of Shotley from 1784 until his death on 5 June 1817.'Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries' The Bury and Norwich Post: Or, Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex, Cambridge, and Ely Advertiser (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Wednesday, 11 June 1817; Issue 1824
He died on 5 June 1817.
He is also recorded as a Prebend of Aylesbury.
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