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.)

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Academic offices
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