William Smyth
Religious Leader
1460 – 1514
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Who was William Smyth?
William Smyth was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions. He was a co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford and endowed a grammar school in the village of his birth in Lancashire.
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- Born
- 1460
Farnworth - Religion
- Catholicism
- Education
- Lincoln College, Oxford
- Employment
- University of Oxford
- Died
- Jan 2, 1514
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on July 23, 2013
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