Peter Allix (priest)

(John) Peter Allix,[1] D.D. (22 August 1679 – 11 January 1758) was an Anglican dean in the early 18th century.[2]

Allix was born in Alençon and graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge in 1703. From 1705 to 1714, he was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.[3] He held livings at Swaffham,[4] Fordham and Dry Drayton. He was Dean of Gloucester from 1729 until 1730; and Dean of Ely[5] from then until his death in Castle Camps.[6]

  1. ^ Geni
  2. ^ Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.1 p. 445
  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. 1209–1752 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p. 22
  4. ^ Historic England
  5. ^ "Magna Britannia: pt. 1. Cambridgeshire. pt. 2. The county palatine of Chester" Lysons, S. p. 262 London; T.Cadell and W.Davies; 1808
  6. ^ Deans, pp. 10–12, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 7, Ely, Norwich, Westminster and Worcester Dioceses. Institute of Historical Research, London, 1992