Rev. Thomas Mallory D.D.

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Rev. Thomas Mallory, D.D., b. ca. 1566, d. at the Deanery House, Chester 3 Apr. 1644, and is buried in the Quire of the Cathedral there; m. Elizabeth Vaughan, living 23 July 1661 (the date of the Will of her son Philip), possibly the "Mrs. Elizabeth Mallory" who was buried in the Chancel of Northenden Church, Northenden, Cheshire, 12 June 1665; a daughter of Right Rev. Richard Vaughan, Bishop of London, by his wife Jane Bower. Rev. Mallory was ordained deacon and priest (Peterb.) 1 May 1595; instituted to the living of Ronaldskirk, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 27 June 1599 (resigned 1621); to the rectory of Davenham, Cheshire, 1600; collated to the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1603 (resigned 1607); presented to the Deanery of Chester 25 July 1607; purchased the avowdson of Mobberly 11 Oct. 1619, became its parson, 1621, and took up residence there. As a Royalist, Rev. Mallory had to flee Mobberly in 1642 and took refuge in Chester, where he died. John Edwards Griffith, Pedigrees of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire Families [Horncastle: for the Author, 1914], 243; George Ormerod, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Second edition (revised by Thomas Helsby) [London: Routledge, 1882], I: 412 and 426; Virginia Magazine of History and Biography XIV:101-102; Alumni Cantabrigienses, compiled by John Venn and John Archibald Venn, Part I (to 1751) [Cambridge: University Press, 1922-1927], III: 130; John A. Brayton, "Thomas Mallory (1566-1644), Rector of Davenham and Dean of Chester", The Virginia Genealogist, vol. 46, no. 2 (April-June 2002), pp. 83-90.