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Bishop Edmund Keene

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Bishop Edmund Keene

Birth
Kings Lynn, Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Borough, Norfolk, England
Death
6 Jul 1781 (aged 66–67)
Greater London, England
Burial
Ely, East Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England Add to Map
Plot
West's Chapel
Memorial ID
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Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Ely.
Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Bishop of Chester and Bishop of Ely.

Inscription

Under this Marble are deposited the Remains of EDMUND KEENE, DD, Bishop of Ely; translated from the See of Chester January 1771.
He died on the 6 of July in the Year of our Lord 1781 in the 68 Year of his Age.
This marble and the Inscription were Placed here by the direction of Bishop Keen who in his will expressly forbad any other monument being erected to his memory.



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