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 | The Rev. James Hastings, the first of the family Rectors and who died aged 100, was Rector for 61 years between 1795 -1856, (whereas the Rev. James Francis Hastings spent 53 years in the parish - 16 as curate and 37 as Rector between 1907-1944). |
| James and Elizabeth both came from established Cotswold families with Chipping Norton the common link, James's father, also James, was born there, baptised in the parish church in 1726 and was buried there when he died in 1788. |
| James matriculated at Wadham College, Oxford, and in 1779, aged 23, was ordained by the Bishop of Oxford. |
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