Rev. Willielmus [William] Tovey M.A.

William Tovey
Born: Knightwick, Worcestershire.
Died: 1598

Rev. John Tovey was his brother. [He was also a Rector of Knightwick]

Knightwick rectory and chapel of Doddenham, vacant by death of John Tovey, late rector Sequestration 15th May, 1585.

Their father William Tovey, died in 1543. [Knightwick]

Records

William Tovey, (1578 - 1599)‬
‪Fellow of ALL SOULS' 1568-85; B.A. 17th February 1568/9; M.A. 2nd May, 1573; B.D. 21st June, 1585; Rector of Warmington, Worcestershire. [CCED records state WARNDON] 1581; Vicar of Brailes, Warwickshire. 1584; Rector of Knightwick, Worcestershire, 1587; Canon of Worcester 1586 and of Hereford 1589 until his death March. 1598/9; [see Foster Ind. Eccles]‬

‪QUALIFICATION‬ UNIVERSITY‬

Willielmus Tovey,‬ 20th June, 1584‬ M.A‬.
Willielmus‬‪ ‬‪Tovey, 04th October, 1585‬ B.D‬.
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‪ORDINATION EVENTS‬
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Deacon: 12th August, 1578 [Whitgift, John/Worcester 1577-1583]
‪Guilielmus‬ Tovey, 12th August, 1578‬ [deacon‬ ordination]‬
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‪Priest: 12th August, 1578 [Whitgift, John/Worcester 1577-1583]
Guilielmus‬ Tovey 12th August, 1578‬ [priest ‬ordination‬]
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‪ ‪APPOINTMENT EVENTS‬
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Rector: *Warndon 5th January, 1581 - 13th May, 1597. 

Perpetual Vicar: *Brailes, 20th June, 1584 - 26th April, 1598‬.

‪Rector: Knightwick, 4th October, 1585 - 26th June, 1598.
‪Institution:‬ Knightwick with Doddenham Chapel‬.
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Willielmus‬ Tovey, 26th June, 1598 - ‬ Rector,‬ natural death.‬
‪Knightwick with Doddenham Chapel.
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Prebendary of *Hereford Cathedral, Cublington 17th March, 1589 -26th June, 1598.



St. George's *Brailes, Gloucestershire.

St George's is popularly known as 'The Cathedral of the Feldon' (the Feldon being the 'field-land' south of the River Avon). It can reasonably claim to be one of the grandest and most beautiful churches in the area. Its size reflects the mediaeval prosperity of Brailes which was probably the third largest town in Warwickshire, at a time when Birmingham was just a hamlet.

St. Mary the Virgin, Knightwick. [Now closed and sold as a house]



St. Mary and St. Andrew, Mortuary Chapel, Knightwick.

*St. Nicholas Warndon, Worcester.

*Hereford Cathedral.

William Tovey, Gent. of Knightwick, living in 1543, was grandfather of William Tovey, B.D. of Knightwick; prebendary of Worcester, afterwards prebendary of Hereford; he died in March, 1598, leaving an only son, John Tovey, of Amblecot, near Stourbridge, father of Richard Tovey, a captain in the army of King Charles I, who died in 1661, leaving a son, Richard Tovey, who died in 1703, father of William Tovey, Esq. of Erdington and Little Aston, Staffordshire, born in 1719; married Elizabeth Twemlow, of Wednesbury, and by her, who died in 1754, left at his decease, 8th October, 1775.