William Dudley (bishop)

William Dudley (died 1483) was Dean of Windsor and then Bishop of Durham.

Born William Sutton, of Dudley, he was a younger son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley,^[1] he was made a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor, in 1471 and elevated to dean in 1473, a position which he held with that of dean of Wolverhampton: thereafter the two posts were customarily held by the same man.

He was nominated to Durham on 31 July 1476 and was consecrated between 1 September and 12 October 1476. In 1483 he supported Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the future King Richard III, in his bid for the Throne of England.^[2] In the last months of his life he was Chancellor of Oxford University.^[1] Dudley died on 29 November 1483.^[3]

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References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
• Loades, David (1996): John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 0-19-820193-1
• Ross, Charles (1981): Richard III, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-05075-4