John Astley (clergyman)

John Astley (1735 – 28 May 1803) was a Church of England clergyman and pluralist, Rector of Thornage, Brinton, Bintree, and Foulsham in Norfolk.

[1] At Easter 1752, aged seventeen, Astley was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge, where he held a scholarship for four years, until 1756.

[3] Without retiring from Thornage or Brinton, Astley was also Rector of Bintree from 1759 to 1771 and of Foulsham from 1771 to 1803, having exchanged those two benefices.

[1] In 1762, Astley married Catherine, a daughter of Philip Bell, Esquire, of Wallington Hall, Norfolk.

In 1808, Catherine Astley presented Browne to the Gorleston living, and he held it until his death in 1832, having in the mean time served as Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.