Christopher Urswick
Christopher Urswick (1448? - 1522[1]) was a priest and confessor of Margaret Beaufort. He was Rector of Puttenham, Hampshire, and later Dean of Windsor. Urswick is thought to have acted as a go-between in the plotting to place her son Henry VII of England on the throne.
He was Archdeacon of Wiltshire (1488–1522), Archdeacon of Richmond (1494–1500) and Archdeacon of Norfolk (1500-1522). He was also Dean of York from 1488 to 1494 and Dean of Windsor from 1494 to 1505. He declined the position of Bishop of Norwich in 1498.
Amongst his more important positions, Urswick became Rector of the Parish of Hackney in 1502, where he ordered the medieval parish church to be rebuilt in the early 16th century of which St Augustine's Tower is the only remnant. He also built a new parish house (Urswick House, now demolished), where he lived for a time; and remains commemorated in Urswick Road in nearby [Homerton]].
He appears as a minor character in Shakespeare's Richard III.
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- Pollard, Albert Frederick (1899). "Urswick, Christopher". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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