Chetwynd, Edward (DNB00)
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CHETWYND, EDWARD (1577-1639), divine, a native of Ingestre in Staffordshire, entered Exeter College, Oxford, in 1592, where he graduated B.A. in 1595, M.A. in 1598, and B.D. in 1606. He was chosen lecturer to the corporation of Abingdon in 1606, and in the following year lecturer to the corporation of Bristol. In 1613 he was appointed chaplain to Queen Anne. He took the degee of D.D. in 1616, and was appointed dean of Bristol in 1617. He also held the vicarages of Banwell in Somersetshire and Barclay in Gloucestershire. He published 'Concio ad Clerum pro gradu habita Oxoniae 19 Dec. 1607,' Oxford, 8vo, and some sermons. His son John is noticed below.
[Wood's Athenae Oxon. (Bliss), ii. 641.]
