Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Wroe, Richard
Wroe, Richard, s. Richard, of Heaton Yate, parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, co. Lancaster, fellow Jesus Coll., Cambridge, 1662-9, B.A. 1661-2, M.A. 1665 (incorporated 6 May, 1669), B.D. 1672, D.D. 1686, vicar of Bowdon, Cheshire, 1674-90, fellow of collegiate church of Manchester 1675, and warden 1684, domestic chaplain to the bishop of Chester and canon 1679, vicar of Garstang, co. Lancaster, 1684-96, rector of West Kirby in Wirrall, Cheshire, 1696, until his death 6 Jan., 1717-18. See Chetham vi. N.S. 148; Fasti, ii. 310; Rawl. iii. 103, v. 195; & Foster's Index Eccl.