Robert Sherborne - Wikipedia

Robert Sherborne
Bishop of St David's (1505–1508) Bishop of Chichester (1508–1536)
Monument in Chichester Cathedral
Diocese	Diocese of Chichester
Orders
Ordination	5 March 1501
Personal details
Born	c. 1453 Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire, England
Died	1536

Robert Sherborne^[1] (born c. 1453 ^[2]^[3] died 1536) was Bishop of St David's from 1505 to 1508 and Bishop of Chichester from 1508 to 1536.

Sherborne was born in Rolleston on Dove, Staffordshire, and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.^[4] He was Master of St. Cross Hospital, near Winchester and a Canon of Wells Cathedral until 1493.

Sherborne was Archdeacon of Huntingdon (1494–1496), Archdeacon of Buckingham and of Taunton (1496–1505)^[5] and Dean of St Paul's (1499–1505).^[6] Exceptionally, he held ecclesiastical posts prior to ordination: he was made a deacon in 1499 and ordained a priest on 5 March 1501.^[5] From 1505 to 1508 he was bishop of St David's.^[7]

Sherborne was a patron of the artist Lambert Barnard, commissioning several series of paintings from him.^[8]^[9] He founded the Free Grammar School in Rolleston, around 1520,^[10] which continued to 1909.^[11]

References

^ Sherborn, Shirbirn, Sherburne, Sherburn, Sherbourne.
^ Bishop Sherborne's own writings quoted in Francis W. Steer, Robert Sherburne Bishop of Chichester: Some Aspects of his Life Reconsidered, Chichester Papers No. 16 (Chichester City Council, 1960), p.2
^ St Mary's Church, Rolleston-on-Dove Archived 2007-08-24 at the Wayback Machine
^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Scadden-Sheyne
^ ^a ^b Christopher Harper-Bill (January 2011) [2004]. "Sherborn, Robert (c.1454–1536)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25357. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
^ Deans of St Paul's | British History Online
^ Bishops of St. Davids
^ Croft-Murray, Edward, ‘Lambert Barnard: An English Early Renaissance Painter', Archaeological Journal, Vol. 113, (1957), pp. 108-125
^ Coke, Karen, Lambert Barnard, Chichester’s Tudor Painter (Chichester, Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral, 2014)
^ Roehampton - Romsey | British History Online
^ The Roots of Education

Sources

Concise Dictionary of National Biography
Steer, Francis W., Robert Sherburne Bishop of Chichester: Some Aspects of his Life Reconsidered, Chichester Papers No. 16 (Chichester City Council, 1960)

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High Medieval	Wulman Ranulf Flambard (disputed) William de Mareni Ralph de Langford Hugh de Mareni Ralph de Diceto Alard de Burnham Gervase de Howbridge Robert de Watford Martin de Pattishall Geoffrey de Lucy William of Sainte-Mère-Église Henry de Cornhill Walter de Saleron Robert de Barton Peter de Newport Richard Talbot John de Ebulo Geoffrey de Fering John Chishull Hervey de Boreham Thomas Ingoldsthorpe Roger de La Legh William de Montfort Ralph Baldock
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Early modern	Robert Sherborne John Colet Richard Pace Richard Sampson John Incent William May John Feckenham Henry Cole William May (again) Alexander Nowell John Overall Valentine Cary John Donne Thomas Winniffe Richard Steward Matthew Nicholas John Barwick William Sancroft Edward Stillingfleet John Tillotson William Sherlock Henry Godolphin Francis Hare Joseph Butler Thomas Secker John Hume Frederick Cornwallis Thomas Newton Thomas Thurlow
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