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John Dolben was the son of William Dolben, prebendary of Lincoln and bishop-designate of Gloucester, and Elizabeth Williams, niece of John Williams, Archbishop of York.
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John Dolben was the son of William Dolben, prebendary of Lincoln and bishop-designate of Gloucester, and Elizabeth Williams, niece of John Williams, Archbishop of York.
John was educated at Westminster under Richard Busby and at Christ Church, Oxford.
Dolben fought on the royalist side at Marston Moor, 1644. Subsequently he took orders and maintained in private the proscribed Anglican service. At the Restoration he became canon of Christ Church (1660) and prebendary of St Paul’s, London (1661). As dean of Westminster (1662-1683) he opposed an attempt to bring the abbey under diocesan rule.
In 1666 he was made bishop of Rochester, and in 1683 archbishop of York. He was the first president of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy when it received its Royal Charter in 1678.
John Dolben distinguished himself by reforming the discipline of the cathedrals in dioceses.
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Dolben married Catherine Sheldon, a niece of Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury. He had two sons, Gilbert, judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) and first of the Dolben baronets, and John Dolben, a well-known politician, who was M. P. for Liskeard from 1707 to 1710 and manager of Sacheverell’s impeachment in 1709.
Welsh clergyman
English lawyer, landowner, politician
1662-1710, Barrister, politician
