The Venerable Josiah Playdell (1641–1707) was an Anglican priest in England.[1]

Playdell was born in Newnham on Severn and educated at Queen's College, Oxford[2] and King's College, Cambridge[3] Playdell was ordained in 1663 and became curate at Chipping Norton. He held livings at Cocking, Bristol, Lyminster and Nuthurst. He was Archdeacon of Chichester from 1679 until his death.[4]

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  1. ^ Sussex people
  2. ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Peach-Peyton
  3. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p365
  4. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1971), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 2, pp. 15–17


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