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British academic administrator, clergyman, and benefactor

Fitzherbert Adams D.D. (1651 – 17 June 1719) was a man of learning, and benefactor of the University of Oxford.

Adams was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he took his Master's degree on 4 June 1675, that of Bachelor of Divinity on 23 January, and Doctor of Divinity on 3 July 1685. He was inducted to the rectory of Waddington, Lincolnshire, on 29 September 1683, and elected Rector of Lincoln College on 2 May 1685. The same year, he was installed a prebendary of the sixth stall, Durham, was removed to the tenth in 1695, and from that to the eleventh, in 1711. He served the office of Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University during 1695–7, and died on 17 June 1719.

As Rector of Lincoln College, he held the living of Twyford, Buckinghamshire; and having received £1,500 for renewing the lease, he laid out the whole in beautifying the chapel of his college, and the Rector's lodgings. He bequeathed his library also to the College, and was a benefactor to All Saints Church, Oxford, where he lies buried, contributing £200 to purchase a parsonage house.

References

  1. "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  2. ^ Chalmers, Alexander. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. new ed. rev. and enl. London: Nichols , 1812–1817. 32 vols.
Academic offices
Preceded byThomas Marshall Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford
1685–1719
Succeeded byJohn Morley
Preceded byHenry Aldrich Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University
1695–1697
Succeeded byJohn Meare


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