Matthew Smallwood, (born Middlewick 15 February 1614; died 26 April 1683), was Dean of LichfieldCathedrals Under Siege: Cathedrals in English Society, 1600-1700; Lehmberg, S. E. p. 138: PSU, 1996 from 1671 until his death.Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857; Vol. 10, Coventry and Lichfield Diocese;London: Deans of Lichfield, Pages 5-8: Institute of Historical Research, 2003
Smallwood was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford.'Shield-Smethurst', in Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714; ed. Joseph Foster (Oxford, 1891), pp. 1350-1368. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1350-1368 [accessed 29 April 2018] He was Chaplain to Charles II and Canon of St Paul's. He held livings in the City of London (St Martin Orgar), Halsall and Gawsworth.
He married Theophania Coningsby (b. 4 February 1625), daughter of Thomas Coningsby, Lord of North-Mims, Hertfordshire, and Martha Button, on 28 May 1650 in St Giles-without-Cripplegate, London. They had the following children: Jacob (died in infancy) Charles (died in infancy) William (died in infancy) Martha, married Sir John Lloyd, 2nd Baronet of Woking Surrey, Surrey and of the Forest, Carmarthen Mary (died in infancy) Agnes (died in infancy)
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