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Gamaliel Clifton

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Gamaliel Clifton or Clyfton (died 1541) was a Canon of Windsor from 1522 to 1541[1] and Dean of Hereford from 1530 to 1541.[2]

He was appointed:

  • Prebendary of York Minster, 1500–1541
  • Prebendary of Hereford Cathedral, 1528
  • Dean of Hereford, 1530

He was appointed to the twelfth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1522, and held the stall until 1541.

Clifton received a papal dispensation for homicide in 1513.[2]

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  1. ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
  2. ^ a b Bietenholz, Peter G.; Deutscher, Thomas Brian (2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. p. 320. ISBN 9780802085771. Retrieved 25 June 2018.