Basil Kennett [SEP] date of death
Basil Kennett
Basil Kennett (21 October 1674 – 3 January 1715) was a Church of England cleric who served as the first chaplain to the British Factory at Leghorn. An academic, writer and translator, Kennett was elected president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, serving for a short time before his early death. His 1696 "Romæ Antiquæ Notitia, or the Antiquities of Rome" was considered the subject's standard handbook for a century.
Biography.
Basil Kennett was born at Postling, Kent, on 21
intimacy with Charles Trimnell, bishop of Norwich, who was high in favour with George I of Great Britain, secured for him in 1718 the bishopric of Peterborough. He died at Westminster in December 1728. White Kennett Street, near St. Botolph, Aldgate, is named after him.
Biography.
White Kennett was born in the parish of St. Mary, Dover, on 10 August 1660, the son of Basil Kennett, M.A., rector of Dimchurch and vicar of Postling, Kent, by his wife Mary, eldest