Michael Lort ( 1725 - 1790 )

Birth: 1725 Death: 6 Savile Row, London, from the effects of a carriage accident (05 November 1790) Burial: St Matthew, Friday Street, London; removed to the City of London cemetery at Ilford (1883) Profession: Antiquary Clergyman, Church of England Education: Mr Evans's School, Tenby, Pembrokeshire; Westminster School; Trinity College, Cambridge; BA (1747), MA (1750), BD (1761), DD (1780); Incorporated at Oxford (1759) Career: Fellow of Trinity (1749); Ordained deacon (1753) and priest (1754); Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge (1759-1771); Vicar of Bottisham, Cambridgeshire (1763-1770); Rector of St Matthew, Friday Street, London (1771-1790); Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Frederick Cornwallis (1779-1783); Prebendary of St Paul's (1780-1790); Lambeth Librarian (1785); Rector of St Michael's, Mile End, Essex (1789); Rector of Fulham, Middlesex (1790) Memberships: FSA (1755) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 15/05/1766.