William Atwater (bishop)
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William Atwater (1440–1521) was an English churchman, who became Bishop of Lincoln in 1514[1]
He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1480. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, in the period from 1497 to 1502.[2]
He became vicar of Cumnor in 1495.[3] He became Dean of the Chapel Royal, in 1502.[4] He was Chancellor of Lincoln from 1506 to 1512.[5]
[edit] References
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- Margaret Bowker (1968), The Secular Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1495 to 1520
- A. Hamilton Thompson (editor) (1940), Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517-1531. Vol I. Visitations of Rural Deaneries by William Atwater…1517-1520. (Publications of the Lincoln Record Society, Vol. 33.)
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| Academic offices | ||
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| Preceded by Robert Smith |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1497–1502 |
Succeeded by John Thornden or Thornton, John Kynton, Simon Grene alias Fotherby |
| Catholic Church titles | ||
| Preceded by Thomas Wolsey |
Bishop of Lincoln 1514–1521 |
Succeeded by John Longland |
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