Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Law, Edmund
Law, Edmund, of St. John's Coll., Cambridge (B.A. 1723, fellow Christ Coll., M.A. 1727, D.D. 1749); incorp. 8 July, 1732, archdeacon of Carlisle 1743, preb. of Lichfield 1763, and archdeacon of Stafford 1763, preb. of Lincoln 1764, and of Durham 1767, master of Peter House, Cambridge, 1756, chief librarian 1760, professor of theology 1764, bishop of Carlisle 1768, until his death 14 Aug., 1787. See Foster's Peerage, E. Ellenborough.