Christopher Urswick

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christopher Urswick (d.1522) was a priest and confessor of Margaret Beaufort. He was Rector of Puttenham, Hampshire, and later Dean of Windsor. Urswick is thought to have acted as a go-between in the plotting to place her son Henry VII of England on the throne.

Amongst his more important positions, Urswick was Rector of the Parish of Hackney, where he ordered rebuilt the medieval parish church in the early 16th century of which St Augustine's Tower is the only remnant. He also built a new parish house (Urswick House, now demolished), where he lived for a time; and remains commemorated in Urswick Road in nearby Homerton.

He appears as a minor character in Shakespeare's Richard III.