Weston, Stephen (1)

an English prelate, was born at Farnborough, Berkshire, in 1665. He was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1686; became a fellow of both colleges; was for some time assistant and then under-master of Eton School; became vicar of Maple-Durham, Oxfordshire; was collated to a stall in Elv in 1715; became archdeacon of Cornwall; was consecrated bishop of Exeter Dec. 28, 1724; and died Jan. 16, 1741 or 1742. In 1749 two volumes of his Sermons appeared, published by bishop Sherlock.