- William Atwater (bishop)
William Atwater (1440-1521) was an English churchman, who became
bishop of Lincoln in 1514 [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=32590 Bishops | British History Online ] ] .He was a Fellow of
Magdalen College, Oxford from 1480. He served asVice-Chancellor of Oxford University , in the period from 1497 to 1502 [ [http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/oxford_people/key_university_officers/vcs_of_oxford.html Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford - University of Oxford ] ] .He became vicar of
Cumnor in 1495 [ [http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/external/cumnor/documents/cumnor-vicars-1298-1999.htm Cumnor Vicars 1298-1999 ] ] . He became Dean of the Chapel Royal, in 1502 ["CDNB, [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/England/_Topics/churches/_Texts/KINCAT*/Lincoln/2.html] ] . He was Chancellor of Lincoln 1506 to 1512 [ [http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/bishops_of_lincoln.htm Bishops of Lincoln ] ] .References
*"Concise Dictionary of National Biography"
*Margaret Bowker (1968), "The Secular Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1495 to 1520"
*A. Hamilton Thompson (editor) (1940), "Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517-1531. Vol I. Visitations of Rural Deaneries by William Atwater...1517-1520". (Publications of the Lincoln Record Society Vol. 33)Notes
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