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The son of John Welchman, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, he was born in 1665.
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Edward Welchman
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He was Archdeacon of Cardigan from 1727. He matriculated as a commoner of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 7 July 1679. He was one of the choristers of Magdalen College in that university from 1679 till 1682.
He proceeded Bachelor of Arts on 24 April 1683, was admitted a probationer fellow of Merton College in 1684, and commenced Master of Arts on 19 June 1688.
His college presented Welchman in 1690 to the rectory of Lapworth, Warwickshire, and he was also rector of Berkeswell in the same county. He became archdeacon of Cardigan and a prebendary of Saint David"s Cathedral on 7 August 1727.
Later he became chaplain to the bishop of Lichfield, who collated him to the prebend of Wolvey in Lichfield Cathedral on 28 September 1732. Welchman obtained the rectory of Solihull, Warwickshire, in 1736, and held it until his death on 19 May 1739.
Welchman"s son John graduated Master of Arts at Oxford, and became vicar of Tamworth, Warwickshire.
