Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Castle, Edmund
CASTLE, EDMUND (1698–1750), master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and dean of Hereford, was a native of Kent, and was born on 14 Sept. 1698 near Canterbury, where he received the greater part of his education. He was admitted into Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1716, being appointed ‘puer cubiculi’ by the master, Bishop Greene, and to a Kentish scholarship on Archbishop Parker's foundation. He received the degree of B.A. in 1719, and was made fellow in 1722. He was appointed public orator in 1726–7, but vacated the office in 1729, on being appointed to the vicarages of Elm and Emneth in the Isle of Ely, whence he was removed to Barley, Hertfordshire. In 1744 he was made rector of St. Paul's School, in 1744–5 master of Corpus Christi College, and in 1746 vice-chancellor. In 1747 he was promoted to a prebend at Lincoln, and in 1748–9 to the deanery of Hereford. He died at Bath on 6 June 1750. He was buried at Barley, Hertfordshire, where there is a Latin inscription to his memory. He was stated to have been a man of considerable learning and of great simplicity of manners.
[Nichols's Lit. Anecd. vi. 78; Masters's History of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, pp. 235–9; Le Neve's Fasti.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.57
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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| 274 | i | 21 | Castle, Edmund: for the same year read in 1744-5 |
| 22 | after College insert In 1746 he was vice-chancellor | ||
| 23 | for the following year read 1748-9 |