Richard Mayew
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Richard Mayew (1439/40–1516) was an English academic, who became bishop of Hereford (1504 to 1516[1]) and a diplomat for Henry VII of England.
He was one of the party who brought Catherine of Aragon from Spain for her marriage, a mission commemorated in tapestries[2].
He was President of Magdalen College, Oxford from 1480 to 1507[3]; previously he had been a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and was brought in by William Waynflete[4]. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1484-5, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1502.
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| Preceded by William Smyth |
Chancellor of the University of Oxford 1502–1506 |
Succeeded by William Warham |
