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John Hacket

John, the son of Sir Andrew Hacket, was born at Moxhull in Warwickshire.  He attended Tamworth School in Staffordshire, before being admitted as a pensioner to Trinity in 1688, at the age of seventeen.  He matriculated in 1690, became a scholar the following year, and graduated BA in 1691/2 and MA in 1695.  His brothers Andrew (1683) and Lisle (1683) also studied at Trinity.

He was a Fellow of Trinity from 1694 to 1745. In 1707 he contributed £50 towards Bentley's improvements in the Chapel.  He took his BD in 1710 and DD in 1717, and held the post of Vice-Master in 1733-34. Following his ordination (deacon, 1697/8, and priest, 1702) he held the position of Rector of Claydon, Suffolk (1711), before incumbencies in four Trinity livings: Vicar of Barrington, Cambridgeshire (1715); Vicar of Trumpington, Cambridgeshire (1719-32); Vicar of St Andrew, Enfield, Middlesex (1732), and finally Rector of Fakenham, Norfolk (1732-45). He was buried at Fakenham.

Hacket was involved in the Bentley prosecution, being the recipient, as Vice-Master, of a copy of the Bishop of Ely's sentence of deprivation, with a mandate requiring him to execute it.  However, rather than do this Hacket resigned, and Bentley's friend Richard Walker became Vice-Master.

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