{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Richard Furney''' (1694-1753) was an Anglican priest and antiquary.
==Life==
Furney was born in Gloucester<ref name="Gray">{{cite book|first=Irvine|last=Gray|title=Antiquaries of Gloucestershire and Bristol|date=1981|pages=59-61}}</ref> and was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1715 and M.A.<ref name="alumni">{{cite web|url=//www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp510-541|title=Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Flooke-Fyrmin}}</ref> He was ordained in 1718 and became curate at St Michael, Gloucester.<ref name="cecd">{{cite web|url=https://theclergydatabase.org.uk/jsp/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?PersonID=15178|title=Church of England Clergy Database}}</ref> He was master of The Crypt School in Gloucester from 1719<ref name="cecd" /> to 1724.<ref name="Gray" /> He held livings at Doynton near Bristol (1720-27),<ref name="cecd" /> Houghton (1727-29),<ref name="cecd" /> Cheriton (1729-53)<ref name="cecd" /> and Tichborne.<ref name="alumni" /> He served as Archdeacon of Surrey from 1725 until his death on 17 February 1753.<ref>{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Horn |first=Joyce M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=3 |pages=88–89}}</ref> Despite his association with Hampshire and Surrey, he purchased an estate in Hucclecote, Gloucestershire, where he was living at the time of his death.
His antiquarian interests were predominantly the history of Gloucestershire and ecclesiastical history. He left a number of manuscripts,<ref>{{cite web|url=//discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F53190|title=National Archives Discovery record summary}}</ref> including Abel Wantner's drafts for a history of Gloucestershire, but published nothing.<ref name="Gray"/> He was a correspondent of Thomas Hearne, providing him with access to ecclesiastical records.<ref>{{cite book|title=Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne|date=1885|publisher=Oxford Historical Society|pages=120, 215}}</ref> He was also associated with Thomas Tanner.<ref>{{cite book|title=Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne|pages=213-4}}</ref>
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