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Edmund Gheast (also known as Guest Geste or Gest; 1514–1577) was a 16th-century cleric of the Church of England.Guest was born at Northallerton Yorkshire the son of Thomas Geste. He was educated at York Grammar School and Eton College and became a scholar of King’s College Cambridge in 1536 (fellow from 1539 to 1554 BA in 1541 MA in 1544 BD in 1551).He was chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker who made him Archdeacon of Canterbury (1559–1564) and Rector of Cliffe Kent.