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]
In 1504 he was appointed Canon of the eleventh stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1514.[5]
He was Chancellor of Lincoln from 1506 to 1512.[6]
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.)
Notes
- ^ Bishops | British History Online
- ^ Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford - University of Oxford
- ^ Cumnor Vicars 1298-1999
- ^ CDNB
- ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
- ^ Bishops of Lincoln