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Author: Freston, Anthony

Biography:

FRESTON, Anthony, formerly BRETTINGHAM (1757-1819: ODNB)

He was born in Norwich on 31 Oct. 1757, the son of Robert Brettingham and his wife Henrietta Freston, who had married on 3 June 1755. When his uncle William Freston of Mendham, Suffolk, died in 1761, he inherited estates in Norfolk and Suffolk on condition of changing his surname to Freston. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford (matric. 1775, BA 1780) and Clare College, Cambridge (MA 1783), and went into the Church (ordained deacon 1780, priest 1783). In 1782 he married a Cambridge widow, Anne Hyde (d 1828), at St. Mary the Less; there is no record of children. He published occasionally on practical Church issues such as the reform of the revenue structure for poorer livings, as well as producing sermons and theological treatises. He was curate at Gayton-Thorpe, Norfolk (1783); perpetual curate at Needham, Norfolk (a living in his own gift) from 1792 to his death; rector of Edgeworth, Gloucs. (1801-20); and curate at Miserden, Gloucs. (1814). He died on 25 Dec. 1819 and was buried in Edgeworth Church. (ODNB 21 Nov. 2021; CCEd 21 Nov. 2021; findmypast.com 21 Nov. 2021) 

 

Other Names:

  • A. Freston
 

Books written (3):

[London]: Wilkie, 1787
London: Wilkie, 1787