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Name
  
Richard Newcome

Died
  
1769, Bath, United Kingdom

Education
  
Queens' College, Cambridge

Richard Newcome (Newcombe) (1701-1769) was an English bishop of Llandaff and bishop of St Asaph.

Life

He was the sixth son of Peter Newcome, vicar of Aldenham, Hertfordshire. He was admitted to Queens' College, Cambridge in 1718, matriculating in 1719, and graduating B.A. 1722, M.A. 1725, and D.D. 1746. He became a Fellow of Queens' and then vicar of Hursley, Hampshire in 1726 .

He was rector of St Botolph's Church, Cambridge in 1727. Subsequently he was chaplain to George II. From 1746 he was rector of Whitchurch, Shropshire, and from 1755 canon of Windsor. He was bishop of Llandaff from 1755 and was translated to St Asaph in 1761.

He died at Bath, Somerset on 3 June 1769.

References

Richard Newcome Wikipedia