Education
He was educated at the Bury Grammar School and at Jesus College, Cambridge, which he entered in June 1658. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1661, Master of Arts
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He was educated at the Bury Grammar School and at Jesus College, Cambridge, which he entered in June 1658. He graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1661, Master of Arts
In 1665, Bachelor of Divinity in 1672, and Doctor of Divinity in 1686. And was incorporated Master of Arts of Oxford University in May 1669. Through the influence of Lord Delamere (afterwards Earl of Warrington) he obtained in 1672 a royal mandate for the next presentation to a fellowship of the college at Manchester.
He was admitted in February 1674-1675.
His next promotion was to a prebendal stall in Chester Cathedral in March 1677-1678. He had previously been appointed domestic chaplain to Doctor John Pearson (1613–1686), his diocesan, who in 1679 appointed him curate of Wigan church, and in April 1681 presented him to the rectory of Bowdon, Cheshire.
This he resigned in March 1689-1690. On 1 May 1684 he was installed warden of Manchester College, and in the same year became vicar of Garstang, Lancashire, which benefice he resigned in 1696 on being presented to the rectory of West Kirby, Cheshire.
During the long period of his wardenship Wroe had great influence in the Manchester area.
A Whig, he was sincerely devoted to the Hanoverian dynasty. William Hulme appointed him one of the first trustees of the Hulmeian benefactions. Wroe died at Manchester on 1 January 1718, and was buried in the chancel of the collegiate church.
Wroe was the son of Richard Wroe of Heaton Yate or Heaton Gate in the parish of Prestwich, Lancashire, was born at Radcliffe, Lancashire, on 21 August 1641, and baptised on 8 September.
He was thrice married: first, to Elizabeth (surname unknown), who died in 1689. Second, on 22 June 1693, to Ann Radcliffe, who died in the following January.
Third, on 2 March 1697, to Dorothy, daughter of Roger Kenyon of Peel, Member of Parliament His portrait was in the possession of Lord Kenyon. Copies of an etched portrait by Walter Geikie were published at Manchester about 1824, and a woodcut appears in the Palatine Notebook, 1882.