Word: archdeacons
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...Thomas William Lewis, of Caius College, has been appointed President of the Cambridge University Rowing Club, vice Mr. P. W. Brancker, who in leaving Cambridge leaves a vacancy in the University Eight. It is thought, however, that Mr. Prest, son, of the Archdeacon of Durham, will take the vacant seat. He is said to be a fair oar, as his father was when he was an undergraduate at St. John's College...
...here it is noticeable that two widely varying accounts of his life are extant, - one by Geoffrey Monmouth, a writer of the first half of the twelfth century, which was translated from a Welsh original, written by Walter Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford; and the other by Sir Thomas Malory, printed by Caxton...