Lionel Woodville
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Lionel Woodville (c. 1446-1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury.
He was a younger son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.
In the late 1470s, he became the first person to receive an honorary degree from the University of Oxford.
After a number of more minor clerical positions, he was elected Dean of Exeter in November 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury from 1483 until his death.
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