Henry Ware (bishop)

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This article is about the bishop of Chichester. For the American Unitarian theologians, see Henry Ware (disambiguation).

Henry Ware (d. 1420) was a diplomat and Lord Privy Seal for King Henry V of England, and later the Bishop of Chichester. Originally from Wales, Ware served as a canon from the 1390s and then studied law, of which he was made a master, at Oxford University. He later became an official in the court at Canterbury and served in diplomatic missions to France in the 1410s. In 1418 he was made bishop of Chichester.

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• Ware biography from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography