found: Oxford DNB, 19 December 2017(Le Neve, John (b. 1679; d. in or before 1741), antiquary; born on 27 December 1679 in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, London; first work was Memoirs, British and foreign, of the lives and families of the most illustrious persons who died in the years 1711 and 1712; his greatest work, Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae, which appeared in 1716, contained 11,051 entries on England's major ecclesiastical dignitaries down to the year 1715; date and place of his death are unknown, but it was not until 23 May 1741 that a new rector was appointed to Thornton-le-Moor, 'vacant by the death of John le Neve, the last incumbent')
