- Christopher Urswick
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Christopher Urswick (1448? - 1522[1]) was a priest and confessor of Margaret Beaufort. He was Rector of Puttenham, Hampshire, and later Dean of Windsor. Urswick is thought to have acted as a go-between in the plotting to place her son Henry VII of England on the throne.
Amongst his more important positions, Urswick was Rector of the Parish of Hackney, where he ordered rebuilt the medieval parish church in the early 16th century of which St Augustine's Tower is the only remnant. He also built a new parish house (Urswick House, now demolished), where he lived for a time; and remains commemorated in Urswick Road in nearby Homerton.
He appears as a minor character in Shakespeare's Richard III.
References
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Further reading
- Pollard, Albert Frederick (1899). "Urswick, Christopher". In Sidney Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. 58. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Categories:- 1440s births
- 1522 deaths
- Deans of Windsor
- Deans of York
- English Roman Catholic priests
- Clergy of the Tudor period
- 15th-century English people
- 16th-century English people
- Archdeacons of Richmond
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