Family:Whitney, John (fl. 1460)

John Whitney, parentage unknown, of Westminster, England, flourished 1460.

John Whitney was a churchwarden of Westminster Abbey, 1460-62.^[1] He was probably the John Wytteney buried between 1478-1480 who received "a grand funeral". ^[2]

References

1.^  Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Charles, The Memorials of Westminster, The City, Royal Palaces, Houses of Parliament, Whitehall, St. Peter's College, The Parish Churches, Worthies, Streets, Modern Buildings, and Ancient Institutions, p. 125.

2. ^  T. C. Noble, A Caxton Memorial; from the Churchwarden's accounts of the parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, Illustrating the Life and Times of William Caxton, the First English Printer 1478-1492, pp. 11-12.

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