Christopher Massingberd

Christopher Massingberd was an English Anglican priest in the 16th-century.[1]

Massingberd graduated LLB from the University of Cambridge.[2] He was incorporated at Oxford in 1537.[3]

Massingberd was Rector of Abington-juxta-Shengay from 1511 to 1515. He held the offices of Canon, Treasurer, Precentor and Chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral. He was Archdeacon of Stow[4] from 24 August 1543 until his death on 8 March 1553.

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  1. ^ National Archives
  2. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p158
  3. ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Mascall-Meyrick
  4. ^ Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M. (1999), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 9, pp. 21–23