{{Short description|English Anglican priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} '''Robert Hitch,''' was an English [[Anglican]] priest.<ref>''Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum'', [[British Museum]], London 1819, p. 253</ref>
Hitch was educated at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>[[Alumni Cantabrigienses]]: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, [[John Venn]]/[[John Archibald Venn]] [[Cambridge University Press]] [https://archive.org/details/p1alumnicantabri02univuoft/page/378/mode/2up > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209–1751 Vol. ii. Dabbs – Juxton, (1922) p379]</ref> The [[Living (Christianity)|Rector]] of [[Adel, Leeds|Adel]], he became [[Archdeacon of Leicester]] in 1661,<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> [[Archdeacon of the East Riding]] in 1662<ref>{{Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae |last=Joyce M. |first=Horn |last2=Smith |first2=David M. |period=1541–1857 |volume=4 |pages=16–18}}</ref> and [[Dean of York]] in 1665.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Fryde |editor1-first=E. B. |editor2-last=Greenway |editor2-first=D. E. |editor3-last=Porter |editor3-first=S. |editor4-last=Roy |editor4-first=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd, reprinted 2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}</ref> He died on 10 February 1667.
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