Edmund Gonville

Edmund Gonville (died 1351) founded Gonville Hall in 1348, which later was re-founded by John Caius to become Gonville and Caius College. Gonville Hall was his third foundation. Before this he had founded two religious houses, a College at Rushworth, Norfolk, 1342 (suppressed in 1541) and the Hospital of St John at Lynn, Norfolk.^[1] The origin of his wealth is obscure.

Gonville held the following ecclesiatiacal appointments:

rector of Thelnetham, Suffolk (1320–26)
rector of Rushford, Norfolk (1326–42),
rector of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk (1342–51).

References

^ Edmund Gonville in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.

C. N. L. Brooke, ‘Gonville , Edmund (d. 1351)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 8 Sept 2008

External links

Edmund Gonville from the website of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

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