William Atwater (bishop)

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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]. He was Chancellor of Lincoln 1506 to 1512^[5].

[edit] 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)

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Bishops | British History Online
2. ^ Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford - University of Oxford
3. ^ Cumnor Vicars 1298-1999
4. ^ CDNB, [1]
5. ^ Bishops of Lincoln