Jonathan Fisher (priest)

Jonathan Parker Fisher (baptised 28 September 1757^[1] – 31 July 1838) was Archdeacon of Barnstaple^[2] during 1805:^[3] he was later Sub-Dean of Exeter Cathedral.^[4]

He was the son of Rev. John Fisher and Elizabeth Fisher. His elder brother was Rev. John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury. He was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey.^[5] and University College, Oxford (BA, 1778; MA, 1780; BD, 1802; DD, 1807).^[6] He died at the rectory in Farringdon, Devonshire, aged 81.^[7]

References

1. Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812
2. "The history and description of the city of Exeter" (1806). Jenkins, A. p11: Exeter, P. Hedgeland.
3. Memorials of Barnstaple; being an attempt to supply the want of a history of that ancient borough (1830). Gribble, J.B.: Barnstaple, J. Avery
4. Ashburton and its neighbourhood
5. Alumni Carthusiani: A Record of the Foundation Scholars of Charterhouse, 1614-1872. Charterhouse School. 1913. p. 143. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
6. Alumni Oxonienses. Parker and Company. 1888. p. 464. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
7. "Deaths". Wiltshire Independent. 16 August 1838. p. 2. Retrieved 17 November 2023.