Edward Pope (priest)
English priest
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Edward Pope (c. 1602–1671) was a Church of England minister.
Life
Pope was born in Berkshire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford.[1] He was Rector of Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey from 1640.[2] In 1662 he was appointed to Dursley, Gloucestershire[3] by Bishop William Nicholson, another Magdalen man, and became Archdeacon of Gloucester in 1666.[2] He held all three positions until his death at Walton on St. Stephen's day, 1671. He was buried at Walton, where a memorial was erected to his memory.[4]
