David Trimnel

{{Short description|English priest; Archdeacon of Leicester}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} '''David Trimnel,''' [[Doctor of Divinity|D.D.]] (b [[Abbots Ripton]] 15 September 1675 – d [[Stoke Hammond]] 18 May 1756) was an English priest.<ref>"The Political State of Great Britain, Volume 35" p163: London; M.Boyer; 1728</ref>

Trimnel was educated at [[New College, Oxford]].<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1501-1528 Tracie-Tyson Pages 1501–1528 Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714]</ref> He was [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[Nuneham Courtney]] from 1660. He was appointed [[Archdeacon of Leicester]] in 1715<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst |first1=John |last2=Hardy |first2=Sir Thomas Duffus |author1-link=John Le Neve |author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Archdeacons of Leicester |wslink=Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.2_body_of_work_part_1.djvu/73 |series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2 |year=1854 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=59–63 |wspages=65–69 }}</ref> and [[Precentor]] of [[Lincoln Cathedral]] in 1718,<ref>[https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/locations/DisplayLocation.jsp?locKey=7859 CCEd]</ref> holding both posts until his death. He had three brothers: [[Charles Trimnell|Charles]] (Bishop of Norwich and of Winchester), [[William Trimnel|William]] (Dean of Winchester), and Hugh (king's apothecary).<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Trimnell, Charles}}</ref>

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