Francis Mears was an English priest in the 17th-century.[1]
Meres was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[2] He was ordained in 1632. Meres was Headmaster of Uppingham School from 1641 to 1666;[3] and held the livings at Wardley, Teigh and Misterton. He was Archdeacon of Leicester from 1679 until his death on 27 August 1683.[4]
- ^ "Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica: Antiquities in Leicestershire, Volume 7" p502: London; J.Nichols; 1790
- ^ 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) p171
- ^ University of Leicester
- ^ Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. – via Wikisource.