Persona
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1775/6–1852
Judging from his age at the time of his death, William Tylney Spurdens was born in either 1775 or 1776. He was baptized at Hoxne, on 23 June 1777.
William Tylney Spurdens served at various times as master of North Walsham grammar school; rectory of Brobury, Herefordshire; chaplain to the Earl of Stradbrooke; and curate of Dilham with Honing, in Norfolk (various newspapers, via British Newspaper Archive).
Spurdens died at the Oaks, North Walsham, on 19 December 1852 and was buried in the parish church on the 24th (Norfolk News, 25 Dec. 1852; burial register and memorial inscription). He was 76 years of age at the time of his death.