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

  1. ↑ "Bishops | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford - University of Oxford Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Cumnor Vicars 1298-1999". www.bodley.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  4. ↑ CDNB
  5. ↑ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
  6. ↑ "Bishops of Lincoln". www.tudorplace.com.ar. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
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