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Surname	Batchelor	Alternative Surname
First Name	John, of Oxford	Initial of Surname	B
Year of Birth/Baptism	1734	Flourished
Year of Death	1810
Biographical Details	A labourer’s son from Headington, he was apprenticed to Jacob Hayfield, a mason of Oxford, on 15 April 1751. £2 was paid ‘by parent’ and a further £10 came as charity from the University. He was admitted to the liberties of Oxford on 15 January 1762 and died, aged 74, in 1810. He may have been a member of the same family as George and Richard Batchelor, of Buckingham. Literary References: GM, 1810, ii, 91; Gunnis 1968, 42 Archival References: Hanaster EB, L 5.5 (unpag)