Very Reverend William Graham, D.D.

 Rev. Dr. William Graham, D.D., Dean of Carlisle & Wells

• Birth:  Abt 1654 
• Died:  4 Feb 1712
• Father:  George Graham, of Netherby, 2nd Baronet of Esk, b. Abt 1624, Esk, Cumberland, England  
• Mother: Mary Johnston of Hartfell  d.1681

Married

1. Mary Offley
2. Alice

Children 

• 1. Robert Graham, b. Abt 1711. Married Frances Graham; their sons Charles, and James, 1st Bt of Netherly.
• 2. Charles Graham, Rector at South Church, Essex. Married Priscilla Billingley; their son, Rev. Sir William Graham, of Esk, 6th Bt.

In holy orders, D.D. and Dean of Carlisle and Wells, Clerk of the Closet and Chaplain to Queen Anne.  

Sources:

1) The baronetage of England By John Debrett page 224 2nd son of Sir George Graham, of Esk, 2nd Bt.

2) Debrett's Baronetage of England: Containing an Account of All Existing ... page 91 4th son of the 2nd Bt., left two sons, Charles, and Robert Graham of Netherly.

3) A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the ... By John Bernard Burke page 449

• Rev. Dr. William Graham, D.D., Dean of Carlisle & Wells
  • Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Graham12 (Reliability: 3)
  • The Peerage, Darryl Lundy, (Compiler: Darryl Lundy ('darryl.lundy','xtra.co.nz'); 128 Heke Street, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND)
• Armigerous Descents
  • Geschichte und Landesbeschreibung des Herzogthums Lauenburg, vol. II, von Kobbe, P. (1836), (Altona: Johann Friedrich Hammerich), p. 103.
    • William, born about 1654; matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, 3 July 1674. B.A. 1678, M.A. 11 March 1680-81, D.D. 14 June 1686. Prebendary of Durham 1684. Rector of Kirkandrews, co. Cumberland, 1682. Dean of Carlisle 1686, and of Wells 1704. He died at Hampton Court, co. Middlesex, 4 February 1712-13, and was buried at Kensington. Admon. granted P.C.C. 14 February 1712-13, and again 18 May 1744. He married, first, in 1688, Mary Offley, spinster. Admon. of her goods granted to her husband some years after her death, 25 November 1710. He married, secondly, Alice -, whose will, dated 4 July 1741, was proved in London 9 February 1743-44. By her he had issue:-

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D.D.

Dean of Carlisle and of Wells. Clerk of Closet and Chaplain to Queen Anne.