James Francis Dimock
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James Francis Dimock (1810–1876) was an English cleric and historical scholar.
The son of John Giles Dimock, rector of Uppingham, Rutland, he was born at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, on 22 November 1810. He was educated at Uppingham School under Dr Buckland, was admitted pensioner of St John's College, Cambridge, on 21 February 1829, and was elected Bell's scholar in 1830. He graduated B.A. in 1833, and M.A. in 1837.[1][2]
Having been ordained deacon and priest by the bishop of Lincoln, Dimock was in 1846 appointed minor canon of Southwell Cathedral; he gave up the canonry on his appointment as rector of Barnburgh, near Doncaster, in 1863. In 1869 he was made prebendary of Lincoln, and he held the prebend with his rectory until his death at Barnburgh on 21 April 1876.[1]
