Dates

• Existence: ? 1707 - 1781

Biography

John Pettingall (1707?-81), Church of England clergyman and antiquary, was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, and matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, on 15 March 1725. He graduated BA in 1728 and was later incorporated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he received the degree of MA (1740); he later proceeded DD from Lambeth. He was ordained priest at Llandaff on 5 March 1732 and for a while served as chaplain to the bishop of Llandaff, Richard Watson. He was rector of Whitsun, and vicar of Christchurch, both in Monmouthshire, until 1756. On 3 June 1757 he was appointed a prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral and on 28 July 1758 was installed prebendary of Lincoln. He appears to have been the incumbent preacher at Duke Street Chapel in Westminster until his preferment to the rectory of Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire, which he held until his death. Pettingall was a keen antiquarian and in 1752 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He was appointed rector of East Hampstead, Berkshire, in 1782 and died at Bagshot, Surrey, on 8 April 1826.

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