Robert Snoden

For the Australian politician, see Robert Snowden (politician).

Robert Snoden or Snowden (Mansfield, unknown date – London, 1621) was an English bishop.[1]

Life

He was born in Mansfield Woodhouse. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1583, M.A. in 1593.[2] He then became a Fellow of Christ's in 1589. He became rector of Harby, Leicestershire in 1596 and of Hickling, Nottinghamshire in 1598.[3]

He became a chaplain to James I in 1614, and Bishop of Carlisle in 1616. The appointment was attributed to the influence of George Villiers.[4] Snoden found his diocese poverty-stricken rather than troublesome, as he wrote to the king.[5] He died in London.[3][6][7]

Notes

  1. ↑ William Hutchinson The history and antiquities of the city of Carlisle - 1796 Page 48 "His successor EPISCOPUS XXXVI. Robert Snowden, was a Nottinghamshire, man by birth : he was consecrated bishop of Carlisle, in November 1616. "
  2. ↑ "Snoden, Robert (SNDN580R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 John Peile, Biographical register of Christ's College 1505-1905 and of the earlier foundation, God's House 1448-1505 (1913), p. 159.
  4. ↑ Claire Cross -Patronage and Recruitment in the Tudor and Early Stuart Church 1996 "Dr Kenneth Fincham has identified some thirty Jacobean bishops for whom this is true, including Robert Snowden and Lewis Bayley of those formerly in Prince Henry's service in 1610 and both Abbot brothers, Lancelot Andrewes, Richard ...
  5. ↑ http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/diocese_ferguson8_f.html
  6. ↑ CCED page
  7. ↑ Peter Linehan St John's College, Cambridge: A History - 2011 - Page 132 "Robert Snowden, bishop of Carlisle, an undergraduate at Christ's during the 1580s, recommended his eldest son to Owen Gwyn, not only for his 'ingenious and studious aptnes to any part of book-learning' but also for his 'skill in vocall and ..."
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Henry Robinson		 Bishop of Carlisle
1616–1621 		Succeeded by
Richard Milbourne