Geoffrey Symeon Explained

Geoffrey Symeon (also Simeon and Symson) S.T.P. (d. 21 August 1508) was a Canon of Windsor from 1501 to 1508^[1] and Dean of Chichester from 1504 to 1508.

Career

He was educated at New College, Oxford.

He was appointed:

• Senior Proctor of New College, Oxford, 1478–1479
• Dean of the Chapel Royal
• Prebendary of Somerley in Chichester Cathedral, 1480
• Prebendary of Holywell in St Paul's Cathedral, 1494
• Rector of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
• Dean of Chichester, 1504
• Dean of Lincoln, 1506
• Vicar of Colerne, Wiltshire

He was appointed to the third stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1501, a position he held until 1508.

He was buried in the Charterhouse, London.

Notes and References

1. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle