William Bree ( 19 November 1822 – 28 January 1917) was Archdeacon of CoventryNational Archives from 1887Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Thursday, 28 April 1887; pg. 15; Issue 32058. until 1908.Ecclesiastical Intelligence. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 19 December 1907; pg. 9; Issue 38520
The son of The Rev William Thomas Bree, MA, Rector of AllesleyIn all 5 members of his family held the living from 1749 until Bree's death > News in Brief. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 30 January 1917; pg. 6; Issue 41389 he was educated at Bridgnorth Endowed School‘BREE, Ven. William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edn, November 2012 accessed 20 January 2017 and Merton College, Oxford.s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Bree, William (2) He was ordained in 1848, and was curate at Polebrook until 1863, when he succeeded his father at Allesley.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1898 p162: London, Horace Cox, 1898 He married firstly, in 1853, Mary Duke;Family web-site and, secondly, Sophy Adèle Biggs.Family Search His great nephew, the actor James Bree, was patron of the benefice until his death in 2008.Parish Magazine
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