Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family - Person Sheet
Notes for Rev Dr William LEVETT
Principal of Magdalene College Oxford and Dean of Bristol.
From Wikipedia
The Oxford-educated personal chaplain to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, whom he accompanied into exile in France, then became the rector of two parishes, and subsequently Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College, Oxford and the Dean of Bristol.
Levett was born in Ashwell, Rutland, where his father Rev. Richard Levett, born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and a graduate of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, was vicar from 1646 until 1660. After Rev. Richard Levett was turned out of his parish in Ashwell, he wrote to Edward Heath of London, soliciting the rector's job in Cottesmore, Rutland, which Heath's family owned.
The Anglo-Norman family Levett family had roots in Sussex going back to the Norman Conquest. William Levett himself was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a fellow, in 1663.
After his graduation from Oxford with a doctorate in divinty, William Levett entered the service of the Earl of Clarendon, English historian and statesman who went into exile in France.
Levett accompanied him there. Levett returned to England in 1672 and became rector of Husbands Bosworth in Leicestershire. Four years later he became vicar of Flore, Northamptonshire.
Levett held all four positions—his appointments to both parishes, as well as his Magdalen Hall principalship and his Deanship of Bristol—until his death.[
In 1681 he was named Principal of Magdalen Hall at Oxford, and in 1685 he became Dean of Bristol.[12] Levett was well-known to many Oxford contemporaries of his day, and remained friends with the Earl of Clarendon and his second son Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester for the rest of his life.
Among his fellow churchmen, Levett seems to have been held in high regard.
At Oxford, William Levett had succeeded James Hyde (1618-1681) as Principal of Magdalen Hall. Hyde, who was the eleventh son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Heale, near Salisbury, was a barrister and a physician as well as Member of Parliament. Hyde himself had been nominated Principal by his relation, the Earl of Clarendon, who was Chancellor of the University, and he took office in 1662. On his death in 1681, the Principal's slot passed to Dr. Levett, another favorite of the Hydes.
In his will Levett directed his body be decently interred, "without any manner of speech, or funerall oration, or either good or bad verses, and without any opening of it, or the least dissection of it whatever" in the Cathedral at Christ Church. The invitations should be sent out and the body carried in such a way, Levett directed, so as to permit the service to be carried out at the "canonical houre" of 4 p.m. exactly. When word of Dean Levett's death reached Oxford on 11 February 1694, a Sunday morning, bells were rung in honor of the late Principal.
Levett left bequests of £50 for the Christ Church library; £20 to Magdalen Hall; £5 for books at Corpus Christi College, Oxford library; and monies to the poor apprentice boys of Husband's Bosworth and Flore.
The will mentions his namesake nephew William Levett, second son of his brother Sir Richard Levett. The sole executor of Levett's estate was Dr. Henry Levett of the London Charterhouse, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and son of Dean Levett's uncle, courtier William Levett Esq. of Swindon and Savernake, Wiltshire. Dean Levett was survived by five daughters.
From Wikipedia
The Oxford-educated personal chaplain to Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, whom he accompanied into exile in France, then became the rector of two parishes, and subsequently Principal of Magdalen Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College, Oxford and the Dean of Bristol.
Levett was born in Ashwell, Rutland, where his father Rev. Richard Levett, born in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and a graduate of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, was vicar from 1646 until 1660. After Rev. Richard Levett was turned out of his parish in Ashwell, he wrote to Edward Heath of London, soliciting the rector's job in Cottesmore, Rutland, which Heath's family owned.
The Anglo-Norman family Levett family had roots in Sussex going back to the Norman Conquest. William Levett himself was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he became a fellow, in 1663.
After his graduation from Oxford with a doctorate in divinty, William Levett entered the service of the Earl of Clarendon, English historian and statesman who went into exile in France.
Levett accompanied him there. Levett returned to England in 1672 and became rector of Husbands Bosworth in Leicestershire. Four years later he became vicar of Flore, Northamptonshire.
Levett held all four positions—his appointments to both parishes, as well as his Magdalen Hall principalship and his Deanship of Bristol—until his death.[
In 1681 he was named Principal of Magdalen Hall at Oxford, and in 1685 he became Dean of Bristol.[12] Levett was well-known to many Oxford contemporaries of his day, and remained friends with the Earl of Clarendon and his second son Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester for the rest of his life.
Among his fellow churchmen, Levett seems to have been held in high regard.
At Oxford, William Levett had succeeded James Hyde (1618-1681) as Principal of Magdalen Hall. Hyde, who was the eleventh son of Sir Laurence Hyde of Heale, near Salisbury, was a barrister and a physician as well as Member of Parliament. Hyde himself had been nominated Principal by his relation, the Earl of Clarendon, who was Chancellor of the University, and he took office in 1662. On his death in 1681, the Principal's slot passed to Dr. Levett, another favorite of the Hydes.
In his will Levett directed his body be decently interred, "without any manner of speech, or funerall oration, or either good or bad verses, and without any opening of it, or the least dissection of it whatever" in the Cathedral at Christ Church. The invitations should be sent out and the body carried in such a way, Levett directed, so as to permit the service to be carried out at the "canonical houre" of 4 p.m. exactly. When word of Dean Levett's death reached Oxford on 11 February 1694, a Sunday morning, bells were rung in honor of the late Principal.
Levett left bequests of £50 for the Christ Church library; £20 to Magdalen Hall; £5 for books at Corpus Christi College, Oxford library; and monies to the poor apprentice boys of Husband's Bosworth and Flore.
The will mentions his namesake nephew William Levett, second son of his brother Sir Richard Levett. The sole executor of Levett's estate was Dr. Henry Levett of the London Charterhouse, fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and son of Dean Levett's uncle, courtier William Levett Esq. of Swindon and Savernake, Wiltshire. Dean Levett was survived by five daughters.