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{{Short description|English bishop (died 1536)}}
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'''Robert Sherborne'''<ref>Sherborn, Shirbirn, Sherburne, Sherburn, Sherbourne.</ref> (born {{circa}} 1453 <ref>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</ref><ref>[http://www.rolleston-on-dove.freeserve.co.uk/stmarys.htm St Mary's Church, Rolleston-on-Dove<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824084134/http://www.rolleston-on-dove.freeserve.co.uk/stmarys.htm |date=2007-08-24 }}</ref> 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]].<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1322-1350 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Scadden-Sheyne]</ref> He was [[Master (college)|Master]] of [[Hospital of St Cross|St. Cross Hospital, near Winchester]] and a [[Canon (priest)|Canon]] of [[Wells Cathedral]] until 1493.

Sherborne was [[Archdeacon of Huntingdon and Wisbech|Archdeacon of Huntingdon]] (1494–1496), [[Archdeacon of Buckingham]] and [[Archdeacon of Taunton|of Taunton]] (1496–1505)<ref name="odnb">{{cite encyclopedia |author=Christopher Harper-Bill |title=Sherborn, Robert (c.1454–1536) |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |orig-year=2004 |date=January 2011 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/25357 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25357 |access-date=5 June 2013 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> and [[Dean of St Paul's]] (1499–1505).<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=32379 Deans of St Paul's | British History Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Exceptionally, he held ecclesiastical posts prior to ordination: he was made a deacon in 1499 and ordained a priest on 5 March 1501.<ref name="odnb" /> He acted as royal ambassador to the pope several times.  From 1505 to 1508 he was [[bishop of St David's]],<ref>[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/bishops_of_st_davids.htm Bishops of St. Davids<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> a post he obtained by forging a papal bull.  When the forgery was discovered, Henry VII wrote to the pope on his behalf.  Sherborne does not seem to have been punished, and in 1508 was made bishop of Chichester, this time legitimately by a real papal bull.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Sherborne,_Robert | title=Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Sherborne, Robert - Wikisource, the free online library }}</ref>

Sherborne was a patron of the artist [[Lambert Barnard]], commissioning several series of paintings from him.<ref>[[Edward Croft-Murray|Croft-Murray, Edward]], ‘Lambert Barnard: An English Early Renaissance Painter', Archaeological Journal, Vol. 113, (1957), pp. 108-125</ref><ref>Coke, Karen, Lambert Barnard, Chichester’s Tudor Painter (Chichester, Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral, 2014)</ref> He founded the Free Grammar School in Rolleston, around 1520,<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51243 Roehampton - Romsey | British History Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> which continued to 1909.<ref>[http://www.rolleston.org.uk/rollestonian/education.htm The Roots of Education<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==References==
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==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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