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class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Appointed</th><td class="infobox-data">6 November 1496</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Term ended</th><td class="infobox-data">2 January 1514</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Russell_(bishop)" title="John Russell (bishop)">John Russell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Thomas Wolsey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Previous post(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Coventry_and_Lichfield" class="mw-redirect" title="Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield">Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Orders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consecration</th><td class="infobox-data">3 February 1493<br />by <a href="/wiki/John_Morton_(archbishop)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Morton (archbishop)">John Morton</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1460</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Farnworth,_Widnes" class="mw-redirect" title="Farnworth, Widnes">Farnworth, Widnes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">2 January 1514<br /><a href="/wiki/Buckden_Towers" title="Buckden Towers">Buckden Palace</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William Smyth</b> (or <b>Smith</b>) (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1460</span> – 2 January 1514) was <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lichfield" title="Bishop of Lichfield">Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield</a> from 1493 to 1496 and then <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Lincoln" title="Bishop of Lincoln">Bishop of Lincoln</a> until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Wales_and_the_Marches" title="Council of Wales and the Marches">Council of Wales and the Marches</a>. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions. He was a co-founder of <a href="/wiki/Brasenose_College,_Oxford" title="Brasenose College, Oxford">Brasenose College, Oxford</a> and endowed a grammar school in the village of his birth in Lancashire. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Smyth&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smyth was born in the south <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a> village of <a href="/wiki/Farnworth,_Widnes" class="mw-redirect" title="Farnworth, Widnes">Farnworth</a> in the parish of <a href="/wiki/Prescot" title="Prescot">Prescot</a>, which now falls within the town of <a href="/wiki/Widnes" title="Widnes">Widnes</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Borough_of_Halton" title="Borough of Halton">Borough of Halton</a>. Smyth was the fourth son of Robert Smyth of Peel Hall.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was allegedly brought up during his youth<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at nearby <a href="/wiki/Knowsley_Hall" title="Knowsley Hall">Knowsley Hall</a>, the home of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Stanley,_1st_Earl_of_Derby" title="Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby">Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby</a>. At this time Stanley was married to his second wife <a href="/wiki/Lady_Margaret_Beaufort" title="Lady Margaret Beaufort">Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lady Margaret was the mother of the future <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII</a> by her previous marriage to <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Tudor,_1st_Earl_of_Richmond" title="Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond">Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and she was to have an important influence in Smyth's life.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smyth went to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His college is uncertain, being either <a href="/wiki/Oriel_College,_Oxford" title="Oriel College, Oxford">Oriel</a> or <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_College,_Oxford" title="Lincoln College, Oxford">Lincoln</a>, or both in succession.<sup id="cite_ref-foster_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foster-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1476 he gained the degree of <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Canon_law" title="Canon law">canon law</a> and by 1492 he had received the degree of <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Civil_Law" title="Bachelor of Civil Law">bachelor of civil law</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ecclesiastical_life">Ecclesiastical life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Smyth&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ecclesiastical life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 24 September 1485, one month after the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Bosworth" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Bosworth">battle of Bosworth</a> and the consequent accession to the throne of <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII</a>, Smyth was given the <a href="/wiki/Benefice" title="Benefice">benefice</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Dean_(religion)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dean (religion)">deanery</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wimborne_Minster" title="Wimborne Minster">Wimborne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dorset" title="Dorset">Dorset</a>, where Lady Margaret's parents were buried. On 20 October 1485 he was made a <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">canon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Prebendary" title="Prebendary">prebendary</a> of <a href="/wiki/St_Stephen%27s_Chapel" title="St Stephen's Chapel">St Stephen's Chapel</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster" title="Palace of Westminster">Palace of Westminster</a>, where he became dean in 1490.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He later obtained the livings of <a href="/wiki/Combe_Martin" title="Combe Martin">Combe Martin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">Devon</a>, of <a href="/wiki/Grimsby" title="Grimsby">Great Grimsby</a><sup id="cite_ref-eb_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on 14 June 1492 he was instituted as rector of <a href="/wiki/Cheshunt" title="Cheshunt">Cheshunt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hertfordshire" title="Hertfordshire">Hertfordshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is not possible to be sure about all his preferments because of his common name.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 1 October 1492 he became bishop of Coventry and Lichfield and was consecrated on 3 February 1493 by <a href="/wiki/John_Morton_(archbishop)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Morton (archbishop)">Archbishop Morton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 6 November 1496 he was translated to the <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Lincoln" title="Diocese of Lincoln">diocese of Lincoln</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-f256_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-f256-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_life">Political life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Smyth&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 20 September 1485 Smyth gained a place in the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Chancery" title="Court of Chancery">Court of Chancery</a> as keeper of the <a href="/wiki/Hanaper" title="Hanaper">hanaper</a> which gave him a salary for life.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1486 he obtained a grant for the <a href="/wiki/Child_custody" title="Child custody">custody</a> of the daughters of <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward IV of England">Edward IV</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1493 Smyth was appointed a member of <a href="/wiki/Arthur,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Arthur, Prince of Wales">Prince Arthur</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Wales_and_the_Marches" title="Council of Wales and the Marches">Council of Wales and the Marches</a>. In 1500 he was made <a href="/wiki/Chancellor_(education)" title="Chancellor (education)">Chancellor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prince Arthur died in April 1502 and in August of that year Smyth became Lord President of the council, giving him full responsibility for the exercise of royal power in Wales. He continued to hold this post until at least 1512 or, possibly, until his death. By August 1502 he was no longer Chancellor of Oxford University.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Smyth&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Philanthropy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In November 1495 Smyth refounded the hospital of St John the Baptist in <a href="/wiki/Lichfield" title="Lichfield">Lichfield</a> and added to it a school for poor children.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1500 he founded the Cuerdley Chapel which was added to the south aisle of <a href="/wiki/St_Luke%27s_Church,_Farnworth,_Widnes" class="mw-redirect" title="St Luke's Church, Farnworth, Widnes">St Luke's Church, Farnworth</a> for the use of his tenants from <a href="/wiki/Cuerdley" title="Cuerdley">Cuerdley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-foster_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foster-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The nearby village of Cuerdley was the seat of the very ancient Smith family of Cuerdley his armorial progenitors<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> from which the renowned <a href="/wiki/John_Smith_(explorer)" title="John Smith (explorer)">Captain John Smith</a> also claimed his lineage.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He purchased land including a footpath from the village to the church to allow entry for his tenants by a separate door to avoid contact with the residents of Farnworth at the time of the <a href="/wiki/Bubonic_plague" title="Bubonic plague">plague</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1507 he made an endowment of £350 to found a <a href="/wiki/Grammar_school" title="Grammar school">grammar school</a> in Farnworth, the village of his birth.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also in 1507 Smyth founded a <a href="/wiki/Fellow" title="Fellow">fellowship</a> in Oriel College, Oxford, and gave manors to Lincoln College. Around the same time he and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Sutton_(lawyer)" title="Richard Sutton (lawyer)">Sir Richard Sutton</a> set out to found a new college in Oxford. They rebuilt Brasenose Hall, added other existing halls to it, and having obtained a charter in 1512, called it "The King's haule and college of Brasennose".<sup id="cite_ref-eb_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This is now <a href="/wiki/Brasenose_College,_Oxford" title="Brasenose College, Oxford">Brasenose College</a>. Smyth's intention at the college was to benefit clergy from the north of England. The twelve fellows of the college were to have been born in the diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, or to have come from Lancashire, and particularly from the area of his birthplace. He gave to the college his lands of <a href="/wiki/Cold_Norton" title="Cold Norton">Cold Norton</a> and, by his will, a considerable legacy of lands, plate, vestments, manuscripts and books.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reputation_and_legacy">Reputation and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Smyth&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Reputation and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smyth's ecclesiastical, legal and political duties resulted in his having a very busy life, only at times being resident in his diocese. He was very wealthy and was described by <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Latimer" title="Hugh Latimer">Hugh Latimer</a> as being one of the "unpreaching prelates"; no <a href="/wiki/Sermon" title="Sermon">sermons</a> by him survive.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He indulged in <a href="/wiki/Nepotism" title="Nepotism">nepotism</a>. <a href="/wiki/Matthew_Smyth_(principal)" title="Matthew Smyth (principal)">Matthew Smyth</a> was the first principal of Brasenose College,<sup id="cite_ref-eb_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eb-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a William Smyth was <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Northampton" title="Archdeacon of Northampton">archdeacon of Northampton</a> and then of Lincoln and another William Smyth was appointed to St John's Hospital at Lichfield.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>William Smyth died on 2 January 1514<sup id="cite_ref-f256_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-f256-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at <a href="/wiki/Buckden_Towers" title="Buckden Towers">Buckden Palace</a>, now in <a href="/wiki/Cambridgeshire" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire</a>, one of the residences of the bishops of Lincoln. In addition to bequests to Brasenose College and <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Cathedral" title="Lincoln Cathedral">Lincoln Cathedral</a>, he made provision for a hospital at <a href="/wiki/Banbury" title="Banbury">Banbury</a>. He is buried in Lincoln Cathedral.<sup id="cite_ref-dnb_6-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dnb-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Smyth&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 40em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Poole, p21</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fishwick, Henry; Ditchfield, P. 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Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F25920">10.1093/ref:odnb/25920</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Smith%2C+William+%28d.+1514%29&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F25920&rft.aulast=Bowler&rft.aufirst=Margaret&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Smyth" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(Subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required.)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1368-1394">Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714, Smith-Sowton</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-foster-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-foster_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-foster_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFoster1981" class="citation book cs1">Foster, Alan (1981). <i>A History of Farnworth Village and its Parish Church</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">25–</span>28.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Farnworth+Village+and+its+Parish+Church&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E25-%3C%2Fspan%3E28&rft.date=1981&rft.aulast=Foster&rft.aufirst=Alan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Smyth" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-eb-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-eb_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-eb_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-eb_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="noprint"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> </span>One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFChisholm1911" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. 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B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). <i>Handbook of British Chronology</i> (Third revised ed.). 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Swale.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Old+Widnes+and+its+Neighbourhood&rft.place=Widnes&rft.pub=Exors.+of+T.S.+Swale&rft.date=1906&rft.aulast=Poole&rft.aufirst=Charles&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWilliam+Smyth" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #DAA520;">Academic offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_Morton_(archbishop)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Morton (archbishop)">John Morton</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/List_of_Chancellors_of_the_University_of_Oxford" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Chancellors of the University of Oxford">Chancellor of the University of 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harlardus" title="Harlardus">Harlardus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wigmund_(bishop_of_Dorchester)" title="Wigmund (bishop of Dorchester)">Wigmund</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coenwulf_of_Dorchester" title="Coenwulf of Dorchester">Coenwulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wynsige" title="Wynsige">Wynsige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwold_(bishop_of_Dorchester)" title="Æthelwold (bishop of Dorchester)">Æthelwold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscytel" title="Oscytel">Oscytel</a></li> <li><i>united see:</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leofwine_(bishop_of_Lindsey)" title="Leofwine (bishop of Lindsey)">Leofwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alnothus" title="Alnothus">Alnothus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86scwig_of_Dorchester" title="Æscwig of Dorchester">Æscwig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfhelm_of_Dorchester" title="Ælfhelm of Dorchester">Ælfhelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadnoth_the_Younger" title="Eadnoth the Younger">Eadnoth</a> <i>(I)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelric_(bishop_of_Dorchester)" title="Æthelric (bishop of Dorchester)">Æthelric</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadnoth_II" title="Eadnoth II">Eadnoth</a> <i>(II)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ulfus_Normanus" title="Ulfus Normanus">Ulfus Normanus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfwig" title="Wulfwig">Wulfwig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Remigius_de_F%C3%A9camp" title="Remigius de Fécamp">Remigius de Fécamp</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">High Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Remigius de Fécamp</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bloet" title="Robert Bloet">Robert Bloet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_of_Lincoln" title="Alexander of Lincoln">Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Chesney" title="Robert de Chesney">Robert de Chesney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_(archbishop_of_York)" title="Geoffrey (archbishop of York)">Geoffrey Plantagenet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_de_Coutances" title="Walter de Coutances">Walter de Coutances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_of_Lincoln" title="Hugh of Lincoln">Hugh of Avalon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_Blois_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="William de Blois (bishop of Lincoln)">William de Blois</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_of_Wells" title="Hugh of Wells">Hugh of Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Grosseteste" title="Robert Grosseteste">Robert Grosseteste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_of_Lexington" title="Henry of Lexington">Henry of Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_of_Gravesend" title="Richard of Gravesend">Richard of Gravesend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Sutton_(bishop)" title="Oliver Sutton (bishop)">Oliver Sutton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Dalderby" title="John Dalderby">John Dalderby</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Antony_Bek_(bishop_of_Norwich)" title="Antony Bek (bishop of Norwich)">Anthony Bek</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Burghersh" title="Henry Burghersh">Henry Burghersh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bek_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="Thomas Bek (bishop of Lincoln)">Thomas Bek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gynwell" title="John Gynwell">John Gynwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bokyngham" title="John Bokyngham">John Bokyngham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Beaufort" title="Henry Beaufort">Henry Beaufort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Repyngdon" title="Philip Repyngdon">Philip Repyngdon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Fleming_(bishop)" title="Richard Fleming (bishop)">Richard Fleming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Grey_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="William Grey (bishop of Lincoln)">William Grey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Alnwick" title="William Alnwick">William Alnwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marmaduke_Lumley" title="Marmaduke Lumley">Marmaduke Lumley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chadworth" title="John Chadworth">John Chadworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Rotherham" title="Thomas Rotherham">Thomas Rotherham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Russell_(bishop)" title="John Russell (bishop)">John Russell</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">William Smyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Thomas Wolsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Atwater_(bishop)" title="William Atwater (bishop)">William Atwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Longland" title="John Longland">John Longland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Holbeach" title="Henry Holbeach">Henry Holbeach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Taylor_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="John Taylor (bishop of Lincoln)">John Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_White_(bishop)" title="John White (bishop)">John White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Watson_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="Thomas Watson (bishop of Lincoln)">Thomas Watson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bullingham" title="Nicholas Bullingham">Nicholas Bullingham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Cooper_(bishop)" title="Thomas Cooper (bishop)">Thomas Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wickham_(bishop)" title="William Wickham (bishop)">William Wickham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Chaderton" title="William Chaderton">William Chaderton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barlow_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="William Barlow (bishop of Lincoln)">William Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Neile" title="Richard Neile">Richard Neile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Montaigne" title="George Montaigne">George Montaigne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Williams_(archbishop_of_York)" title="John Williams (archbishop of York)">John Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Winniffe" title="Thomas Winniffe">Thomas Winniffe</a></li> <li><i>Episcopacy abolished (<a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_England" title="Commonwealth of England">Commonwealth</a>)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Sanderson_(theologian)" title="Robert Sanderson (theologian)">Robert Sanderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Lany" title="Benjamin Lany">Benjamin Lany</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Fuller_(bishop)" title="William Fuller (bishop)">William Fuller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Barlow_(bishop)" title="Thomas Barlow (bishop)">Thomas Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tenison" title="Thomas Tenison">Thomas Tenison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Gardiner_(bishop)" title="James Gardiner (bishop)">James Gardiner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wake" title="William Wake">William Wake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Gibson" title="Edmund Gibson">Edmund Gibson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Reynolds_(bishop)" title="Richard Reynolds (bishop)">Richard Reynolds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="John Thomas (bishop of Salisbury)">John Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Green_(bishop)" title="John Green (bishop)">John Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Thurlow_(bishop)" title="Thomas Thurlow (bishop)">Thomas Thurlow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Pretyman_Tomline" title="George Pretyman Tomline">George Pretyman</a> (later Pretyman Tomline)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pelham_(bishop)" title="George Pelham (bishop)">George Pelham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kaye_(bishop)" title="John Kaye (bishop)">John Kaye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Jackson_(bishop)" title="John Jackson (bishop)">John Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Wordsworth" title="Christopher Wordsworth">Christopher Wordsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_King_(bishop_of_Lincoln)" title="Edward King (bishop of Lincoln)">Edward King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hicks_(bishop)" title="Edward Hicks (bishop)">Edward Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Swayne" title="William Swayne">William Swayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nugent_Hicks" title="Nugent Hicks">Nugent Hicks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aylmer_Skelton" title="Aylmer Skelton">Aylmer Skelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_Owen" title="Leslie Owen">Leslie Owen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Harland" title="Maurice Harland">Maurice Harland</a></li> <li><a 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</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lichfield</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winfrith_(bishop)" title="Winfrith (bishop)">Winfrith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seaxwulf" title="Seaxwulf">Seaxwulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Headda" title="Headda">Headda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aldwine" title="Aldwine">Aldwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Witta_(bishop_of_Lichfield)" title="Witta (bishop of Lichfield)">Witta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemele" title="Hemele">Hemele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cuthfrith" title="Cuthfrith">Cuthfrith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Berhthun_(bishop)" title="Berhthun (bishop)">Berhthun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hygeberht" title="Hygeberht">Hygeberht</a> (Archbishop of Lichfield)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ealdwulf_of_Lichfield" title="Ealdwulf of Lichfield">Ealdwulf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herewine" title="Herewine">Herewine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwold_(bishop_of_Lichfield)" title="Æthelwold (bishop of Lichfield)">Æthelwold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunberght" title="Hunberght">Hunberght</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynefrith" title="Cynefrith">Cynefrith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tunberht" title="Tunberht">Tunberht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfsige_of_Lichfield" title="Wulfsige of Lichfield">Wulfsige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burgheard" title="Burgheard">Burgheard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eadberht_of_Lichfield" title="Eadberht of Lichfield">Eadberht</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfred_of_Lichfield" title="Wulfred of Lichfield">Wulfred</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilferth" title="Wilferth">Wilferth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwine_of_Lichfield" title="Ælfwine of Lichfield">Ælfwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfgar_of_Lichfield" title="Wulfgar of Lichfield">Wulfgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynesige_of_Lichfield" title="Cynesige of Lichfield">Cynesige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wynsige_of_Lichfield" title="Wynsige of Lichfield">Wynsige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elphege_of_Lichfield" title="Elphege of Lichfield">Elphege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godwin_(bishop)" title="Godwin (bishop)">Godwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leofgar" title="Leofgar">Leofgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihtm%C3%A6r" title="Brihtmær">Brihtmær</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wulfsige_(bishop_of_Lichfield)" title="Wulfsige (bishop of Lichfield)">Wulfsige</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leofwin" title="Leofwin">Leofwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_of_Lichfield" title="Peter of Lichfield">Peter</a> (became Bishop of Chester)</li> <li>Peter, Bishop of Chester</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Coventry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Limesey" title="Robert de Limesey">Robert de Limesey</a>, Bishop of Chester</li> <li>Robert de Limesey (previously Bishop of Chester)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Peche" title="Robert Peche">Robert Peche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_de_Clinton" title="Roger de Clinton">Roger de Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Durdent" title="Walter Durdent">Walter Durdent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Peche" title="Richard Peche">Richard Peche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerard_la_Pucelle" title="Gerard la Pucelle">Gerard la Pucelle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Nonant" title="Hugh Nonant">Hugh Nonant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_de_Muschamp" title="Geoffrey de Muschamp">Geoffrey de Muschamp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_de_Cornhill" title="William de Cornhill">William de Cornhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_de_Stavenby" title="Alexander de Stavenby">Alexander de Stavenby</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Coventry & Lichfield</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_de_Stavenby" title="Alexander de Stavenby">Alexander de Stavenby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_de_Pateshull" title="Hugh de Pateshull">Hugh de Pateshull</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Weseham" title="Roger Weseham">Roger Weseham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_de_Meyland" title="Roger de Meyland">Roger de Meyland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Langton" title="Walter Langton">Walter Langton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Northburgh" title="Roger Northburgh">Roger Northburgh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_de_Stretton" title="Robert de Stretton">Robert de Stretton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Skirlaw" title="Walter Skirlaw">Walter Skirlaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Scrope_(bishop)" title="Richard Scrope (bishop)">Richard le Scrope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Burghill" title="John Burghill">John Burghill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Catterick" title="John Catterick">John Catterick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Cary_(bishop)" title="James Cary (bishop)">James Cary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Heyworth" title="William Heyworth">William Heyworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Booth_(bishop)" title="William Booth (bishop)">William Booth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Close" title="Nicholas Close">Nicholas Close</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Boulers" title="Reginald Boulers">Reginald Boulers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hales_(bishop_of_Coventry_and_Lichfield)" title="John Hales (bishop of Coventry and Lichfield)">John Hales</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">William Smyth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Arundel_(bishop_of_Exeter)" title="John Arundel (bishop of Exeter)">John Arundel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Blythe" title="Geoffrey Blythe">Geoffrey Blythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rowland_Lee_(bishop)" title="Rowland Lee (bishop)">Rowland Lee</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lichfield & Coventry</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rowland_Lee_(bishop)" title="Rowland Lee (bishop)">Rowland Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Sampson" title="Richard Sampson">Richard Sampson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Baines" title="Ralph Baines">Ralph Baines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bentham" title="Thomas Bentham">Thomas Bentham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Overton_(bishop)" title="William Overton (bishop)">William Overton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Abbot_(bishop)" title="George Abbot (bishop)">George Abbot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Neile" title="Richard Neile">Richard Neile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Overall_(bishop)" title="John Overall (bishop)">John Overall</a></li> <li><a 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