Nobbes, Robert, 1652-1706?

found: His The compleat troller, 1682:t.p. (a lover of the sport) dedication signed (Ro. Nobbes, M.A.)

found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed 10 January 2019(Nobbes, Robert, 1652-1706?; Church of England clergyman and writer on angling; born at Bulwick, Northamptonshire, on 21 July 1652; admitted on 24 June 1668 as pensioner to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where graduated BA in 1671 and MA in 1675; ordained deacon at Peterborough on 16 June 1671 and priest on 24 September 1676; he became vicar of Apethorpe and Wood Newton in Northamptonshire in 1676, a post he held until 1690; after an unexplained gap he became on 4 August 1702 rector of Sausthorpe, Lincolnshire, which post he held until 1706, when he is assumed to have died)