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Olinthus Roberts Barnicott was the son of James Barnicott, a painter, and Hephzibah Warren, and husband of Mary Elizabeth Ann Slater. He was educated at St John’s College, Cambridge (BA & LLB 1882, LLM 1885, LLD 1897), ordained an Anglican deacon in 1886, and ordained a priest at Winchester in 1887.

Barnicott served as clerk of St. Mark, Woolston, Hampshire (1886-89); clerk of Holy Trinity, Ryde, Isle of Wight (1890-91); clerk of Eling (1892-95); priest in the diocese of Chichester (1897-1902); chaplain to the Cottismore School in Brighton (1898-1905); clerk of Preston in Brighton (1902-05); and rector of Stratton-on-the-Fosse (1905-08).

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