Stephen Boughton

EDUCATION EVENTS
B.A. 13 May, 1594.
M.A. 8 July, 1607.

ORDINATION EVENTS
Deacon: 03/12/1601 [Goldsborough, Godfrey/Gloucester 1598-1604]
Priest: 03/12/1601 [Goldsborough, Godfrey/Gloucester 1598-1604]

APPOINTMENT EVENTS
Vicar choral : Hereford cathedral, vicar choral [unspecified] [01/10/1594 - 00/00/1596]
Vicar in the choir : Hereford cathedral, vicar choral [unspecified] ([06/08/1596]
Sub-treasurer: Hereford Cathedral, minor canonry, de Lyra [25/06/1599]
Vicar in the choir : Hereford Cathedral, minor canonry, de Lyra [25/06/1599 - 11/07/1687]
Vicar in the choir : Hereford cathedral, vicar in choir, Diddlebury [01/10/1599 - 01/10/1599]
Vicar: Much Dewchurch [06/09/1601 - 10/03/1604]
Vicar: Westbury-on-Severn [20/09/1603 - 16/09/1605]
Perpetual Vicar : Much Marcle with Yatton [07/06/1606 - 11/11/1636]
Custos: Hereford Cathedral, custos of College of Vicars Choral [16/01/1607 - 20/10/1629]
Rector: Broadwas [03/10/1629 - 08/05/1637]

Custos: keeper, custodian, guard; from medieval latin.

Alumni oronienses: The members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714: their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees.

Boughton, Stephen, of Bucks, pleb. MAGDALEN Coll., matric. 2 July, 1585, aged 13; chorister 158491, clerk 1594-5; B.A. 13 May, 1594, M.A. 8 July, 1607, chaplain of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, 1604, and sub-dean, vicar of Westbury, co. Gloucester, 1603, vicar of Much Marcle, co. Hereford, 1605, and rector of Dynedor 1606, canon of Worcester 1628, rector of Broadwas, co. Worcester, 1631. See Bloxam, i. 22 ; & Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.

Boughton, Stephen, s. Stephen, of Much Marcle, co. Hereford, sacerd. Magdalen Coll., matric. 2 July, 1624, aged 12: chorister 1623, clerk 1631-48, B.A. 3 July, 1633, M.A. 7 July, 1636, created B.Med. 1 Nov., 1642, and admitted to practice medicine 17 Jan., 1647-8, expelled 1648, restored 1660-1, of St. Mary, Savoy, licenced 26 Oct., 1668, to marry Margaret Robinson, of St. Paul, Covent Garden, widow. See Marriage Licences, ed. Foster; Burrows; Bloxam, i. 37 ; & Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.

Boughton, ' Herbert,' s. Stephen, of Hereford (city), sacerd. Balliol Coll., matric. 6 Feb., 1628-9, aged 18; B.A. 27 Jan., 1631-2, M.A. 15 Jan., 1634-5, vicar of Wolverley, co. Worcester, 1640, and of Much Dewchurch, co. Hereford, 1660, canon of Hereford J669. See Foster's Index Ecclesiasticus.

Stephen Boughton
[1571 - 1641]
English church musician. Brother of Richard. Chorister of St Mary Magdalen College [Oxford] 157[6]-8(6]. Vicar choral of Hereford Cathedral 15[(3]-1629. BMus [Oxford] 1594. Chaplain of St George's Chapel [Windsor] 1594-16uu.: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal 160[2]-4(2].; Canon of Worcester Cathedral from 1628. Subdean of the Chapel Royal 162[3]-4[1]



Slate wall memorial at St Bartholomew, Much Marcle.
"In sacred memory not without tears most beloved Elizabeth faithful consort of Stephen Boughton Sub Dean of the Chapel Royal; Daughter and heir of John Cyrill (Kyrle) citizen and counselor of Hereford. Of pious, charitable, tolerant virtues for all of her 46 years of life She died the 19th day of the month of June AD 1623"
 
Elizabeth c1576-1623, was the daughter and heiress of John Kyrle of Hereford. She married, Stephen Boughton

Children
1. Herbert 1611-1678 vicar of Wolvesley; Schoolmastr of Ledbury; Vicar of Much Dewchurch, Canon of Hereford; married Ann Barnes of Hellens [buried at Madley]
 
Husband Stephen Boughton, M.A. Custos 1607. was successively vicar of Westbury, Much Marcle, Dinedor. Also Reader & Sub Dean at the Chapel Royal to James I., and Prebendary of Worcester. He was deprived of all his preferment in 1645, and died before 1660.



Close up of Elizabeth Boughton in the above memorial.

St. Mary Magdalene, Broadwas, Worcestershire.

St. Mary Magdalene, Broadwas, Worcestershire.
Rev. Stephen Boughton [03/10/1629 - 08/05/1637]


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