Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Mildert, William Van

by Joseph Foster

Mildert, William Van, s. Cornelius, of St. Mary Newington, Surrey, gent. Queen's Coll., matric. 21 Feb., 1784, aged 18; B.A. 1787, M.A. 1790, B. & D.D. 1813, Boyle lecturer 1804, Bampton lecturer 1813, regius professor of divinity and canon of Christ Church 1813-20. rector of Bradden, Northants, 1795-6, of St. Mary-le-Bow, London, 1796, vicar of Farningham, Kent, 1807, preacher of Lincoln's Inn 1812, bishop of Llandaff 1819-26, and dean of St. Paul's 1820, bishop of Durham 1826, until his death 21 Feb., 1836, founder of the University of Durham. See Robinson, 146.