Edmund Sheriffe Explained

Edmund Sheriffe was a priest and academic in the 15th century.^[1]

Sheriffe was a prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from 1458; Rector of Little Billing from 1467; Archdeacon of Stow from 1471^[2] and Master of Gonville Hall, Cambridge from 1472, holding all four positions until his death on 29 September 1475.^[3]

Notes and References

1. [Alumni Cantabrigienses|Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900]
2. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1300-1541/vol1/pp17-19 British History on-line
3. "Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College" John Venn/John Archibald Venn p27: Cambridge; CUP; 1901