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William Chaderton1 (1540? - 1608) was an English academic and bishop. He also served as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity.
He was born in Moston, Lancashire, what is now a part of the city of Manchester. He matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1555, and graduated M.A. at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1561.23
He was Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1569, and President of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1568 to 15794. He was Rector of Holywell, Huntingdonshire in 15705. He was bishop of Chester from 1579 to 15956. He was then Bishop of Lincoln from 1595 to 1608.7
He was also Warden of Manchester College, where he was succeeded by John Dee.
Family
Elizabeth Jocelin (nee Brooke), author of The Mothers Legacie, To her Unborne Childe (1624), was his granddaughter.8
Notes
- ^ Chadderton, Chatterton.
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zQPnB1IAjUsC&pg=PA167&dq=born+moston&as_brr=3
- ^ Queens' College Cambridge - Fellows & Presidents 1448-1599
- ^ Parishes - Holywell with Needingworth | British History Online
- ^ Bishops of Chester
- ^ Bishops of Lincoln
- ^ The bishop immediately settled these manors, rents, etc., held of the king in chief, on himself and his wife Katherine during her widowhood, with remainder to his daughter Joan Brooke, wife of Sir Richard Brooke, and her heirs male. Joan Brooke died before the bishop (d. 1608) and her daughter Elizabeth, wife of William Sandes, succeeded to her grandfather's estate. She is said to have married Tyrrell Jocelyn of Holywell,[...]. From: 'Parishes: Southoe', A History of the County of Huntingdonshire: Volume 2 (1932), pp. 346-54. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=42513. Date accessed: 24 July 2007.
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