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| | John Woolton (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | JOHN WOOLTON, nephew to the celebrated Dean Nowell, was born at Whalley, in the county of Lancaster, and distinguished himself at Brasenose College, Oxford. |
 | | In Bishop Alley, who brought him into his diocese, and in Francis, Earl of Bedford, he found zealous and liberal patrons. |
 | | Some years before his death he had purchased Pilland Estate in Pilton, of the Brett family; his son, John Woolton, M.D., eventually giving up his practice in Exeter, retired to Pilland. |
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