Robert Rogers was an Anglican priest and Antiquary[1] in the second half of the 16th-century.[2]

Rogers was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.[3] He was appointed Archdeacon of Chester in 1566[4] and Canon of Chester Cathedral in 1580, holding both positions until his death in 1595.[5]

References

  1. ↑ History of the City of Chester
  2. ↑ "Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum" p521: London; King George; 1808
  3. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Rogers, Robert (1)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. ↑ "History of the city of Chester, from its foundation to the present time : with an account of its antiquities, curiosities, local customs, and peculiar immunities ; and a concise political history" Hemingway, J Chester' J. Fletcher; 1831 p.325
  5. ↑ Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M.; Mussett, Patrick (2004), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 11, pp. 45–47


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