William James (bishop)

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". William James (1542 – 12 May 1617) was an English academic and bishop.

Life

William James graduated with an MA degree at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1565.[1] He was Master of University College, Oxford, in 1572, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1581, and again in 1590. He became Dean of Christ Church in 1584.[2]

James became Dean of Durham in 1596, where he was a witness to the decay of agriculture in northeast England.[3][4] He was Bishop of Durham from 1606.[2]

In early 1611, James had custody of Arbella Stuart, with the intention of the King to take her north to Durham. In the event, Arbella was moved from Lambeth to be confined at Barnet, while the bishop travelled north leaving Sir James Croft in charge, and for health reasons did not follow, being moved to East Barnet.[5] When Arbella and her husband William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset, (who was in the Tower of London) made simultaneous but badly coordinated escapes on 3 June 1611, she simply walked free.[6]

Wolsingham School was founded on 19 June 1614 by James as the Bishop of Durham. The board of trustees included nine landowners who had all donated land to create the (then) boys' school. Each of the founding trustees was allowed to name two boys to be taught a basis education from the age of eight.[7]

References

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  1. ↑ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Jablonski-Juxston
  2. ↑ a b Script error: No such module "template wrapper". Template:Link note Online edition, January 2008.
  3. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  4. ↑ Richard L. Graves, Society and Religion in Elizabethan England (1981), page 638.
  5. ↑ Sarah Gristwood, Arbella: England's Lost Queen (2003), pp. 359–368.
  6. ↑ Gristwood, pp. 370–371.
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