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{{short description|English bishop}}
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{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific-prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|RRevd}}
| name             = William Chaderton
| honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|}}
| image            = Bp William Chaderton.jpg
| caption          = 
| title            = [[Bishop of Lincoln]]
| diocese          = [[Diocese of Lincoln]]
| term             = 1595–1608 (death)
| predecessor      = [[William Wickham (bishop)|William Wickham]]
| successor        = [[William Barlow (bishop of Lincoln)|William Barlow]]
| other_post       = [[Bishop of Chester]] (1579–1595)
| birth_date       = {{circa|1540}}
| birth_place      = [[Moston, Manchester|Moston]], Manchester<ref name=DNB>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Chaderton, William|first=Edmund|last=Venables|volume=9}}</ref>
| death_date       = {{death date|1608|04|11|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[Southoe]], Cambridgeshire<ref name="DNB" />
| buried           = 
| nationality      = British
| religion         = [[Anglicanism|Anglican]]
| residence        = 
| parents          = 
| spouse           = Katherine Revell<ref name="DNB" />
| children         = 
| profession       = 
| education        = 
| alma_mater       = [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]]<br />[[Christ's College, Cambridge]]
}}
[[File:William Chaderton Escutcheon.png|thumb|Arms: Quarterly 1st and 4th Gules a cross potent Or 2nd and 3rd Argent a chevron between three crampirons Gules.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/bishops/ |title=The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester |publisher=Cheshire Heraldry Society |access-date=9 February 2021}}</ref>]]    
'''William Chaderton'''<ref>Chadderton, Chatterton.</ref> (c.1540 – 11 April 1608) was an English academic and bishop. He also served as [[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]].<ref name="Venn">{{acad|id=CHDN555W|name=Chaderton or Chatterton, William}}</ref>

He was born in [[Moston, Manchester|Moston, Lancashire]], what is now a part of the city of [[Manchester]]. After attending [[The King's School, Chester]]<ref name="InspirationalAlumni">{{cite web|title=Inspirational Alumni Members|url=http://www.kingschester.co.uk/extras/KingsAlumni/inspirationalAlumni.html|publisher=The King's School Chester|access-date=2 December 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215071558/http://www.kingschester.co.uk/extras/KingsAlumni/inspirationalAlumni.html|archive-date=15 December 2011}}</ref> and/or [[Manchester Grammar School]],<ref name=DNB/><ref name="Venn"/> he went on to [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], first entering [[Magdalene College, Cambridge|Magdalene College]], then moving to [[Pembroke College, Cambridge|Pembroke College]], where he matriculated in 1555. He graduated [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1557/8 (at [[Christ's College, Cambridge|Christ's College]]), [[Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin)|M.A.]] 1561, [[Bachelor of Divinity|B.D.]] 1566, [[Doctor of Divinity|D.D.]] 1569 (at [[Queens' College, Cambridge|Queens' College]]).<ref name="Venn"/>

He was a Fellow of Christ's College 1558–1568, [[Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity]] 1567–1569, [[Regius Professor of Divinity]] 1569–1580,<ref name="Venn"/> and President of [[Queens' College, Cambridge]] from 1568 to 1579.<ref>[http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/queens/Misc/Fellows/1448-1599.html Queens' College Cambridge – Fellows & Presidents 1448–1599<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070810080127/http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/queens/Misc/Fellows/1448-1599.html |date=10 August 2007 }}</ref> He was Rector of [[Holywell, Huntingdonshire]] in 1570.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42477 Parishes – Holywell with Needingworth | British History Online]</ref> He was [[Bishop of Chester]] from 1579 to 1595.<ref>[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/bishops_of_chester.htm Bishops of Chester<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He was then [[Bishop of Lincoln]] from 1595 to 1608.<ref>[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/bishops_of_lincoln.htm Bishops of Lincoln<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

He was also [[Warden of Manchester College]], where he was succeeded by [[John Dee (mathematician)|John Dee]].

==Family==
[[Elizabeth Jocelin]] (née Brooke), author of ''The Mothers Legacie, To her Unborne Childe'' (1624), was his granddaughter.<ref>''The bishop immediately settled these manors, rents, etc., held of the king in chief, on himself and his wife Katherine during her widowhood, with remainder to his daughter Joan Brooke, wife of Sir Richard Brooke, and her heirs male. Joan Brooke died before the bishop (d. 1608) and her daughter Elizabeth, wife of William Sandes, succeeded to her grandfather's estate. She is said to have married Tyrrell Jocelyn of Holywell,[...]''. From: 'Parishes: Southoe', A History of the County of Huntingdonshire: Volume 2 (1932), pp. 346–54. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42513. Date accessed: 24 July 2007.</ref> After his granddaughter's parents separated, and her mother returned home, Bishop Chaderton was mainly responsible for her upbringing. Elizabeth's childhood was therefore passed in the house of Bishop Chaderton, who educated her. She was extremely well versed in art, religion and language.

==Notes==
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{{S-bef|before=[[John Whitgift]]}}
{{S-ttl|title=[[Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge]]|years=1569–1579}}
{{S-aft|after=[[William Whitaker (theologian)|William Whitaker]]}}
{{S-bef|before=[[John Stokes (Archdeacon of York)|John Stokes]]}}
{{S-ttl|title=[[List of Presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge|President]] of [[Queens' College, Cambridge]]|years=1568–1579}}
{{S-aft|after=[[Humphrey Tyndall]]}}
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{{S-bef|before=[[William Downham]]}}
{{S-ttl|title=[[Bishop of Chester]]|years=1579–1595}}
{{S-aft|after=[[Hugh Bellot]]}}
{{S-bef|before=[[William Wickham (bishop)|William Wickham]]}}
{{S-ttl|title=[[Bishop of Lincoln]]|years=1595–1608}}
{{S-aft|after=[[William Barlow (bishop of Lincoln)|William Barlow]]}}
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{{Bishops of Chester}}
{{Bishops of Lincoln}}
{{Archdeacons of York}}
{{Presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge}}
{{Regius Professors of Divinity}}
{{Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity}}

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