Robert Burscough

Who was Robert Burscough?

Robert Burscough was an English divine.

The son of Thomas Burscough, he was born at Cartmel, Lancashire, in 1651.Edward Vallance, ‘Burscough, Robert ’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 15 July 2013 He entered Queen's College, Oxford, as servitor in 1668, and took his B.A. in 1672 and M.A. in 1682. In 1681 he was presented by Charles II of England to the vicarage of Totnes, Devonshire, in succession to John Prince, author of the Worthies of Devon. He was prebendary of Exeter Cathedral in 1701, and archdeacon of Barnstaple in 1703. He was buried at Bath on 29 July 1709. He is characterised by Anthony à Wood as "a learned man, zealous for the church of England, and very exemplary in his life and conversation."