George Steere, rector of Newdigate

Rev. George Steere, instituted Rector of Newdigate 20th March, 1609-10. Admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge, June 1599. Buried 13th January, 1662. He appears from the Parish Register to have been active in repairs of the church. By his will he charged an estate called Blackbrooks, in Dorking, with payment of £10 a year towards the maintenance of a young person in Trinity College for four years, and then another for the same period, &c. (Manning and Bray.) The pedigree of his wife, showing her marriage, is entered in the Visitation of Surrey, 1623. She was daughter of Thomas Smallpece, of Newdegate, and granddaughter of Thomas Smallpece of Guilford. (Suri-ey Archceological Collections, Vol. XII.)

Source: Conventicles in Surrey in 1669, Surrey Archaeological Collections, Volume 13, 1897