William Atwater (bishop) explained

William Atwater (1440–1521) was an English churchman, who became Bishop of Lincoln in 1514.^[1]

He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1480. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, in the period from 1497 to 1502.^[2]

He became vicar of Cumnor in 1495.^[3] He became Dean of the Chapel Royal, in 1502.^[4] In 1504 he was appointed Canon of the eleventh stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1514.^[5] He was Chancellor of Lincoln from 1506 to 1512.^[6]

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 and References

1. Web site: Bishops British History Online. www.british-history.ac.uk. en. 2017-12-12.
2. 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
3. Web site: Cumnor Vicars 1298-1999. www.bodley.ox.ac.uk. 2017-12-12.
4. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Great_Britain/England/_Topics/churches/_Texts/KINCAT*/Lincoln/2.html CDNB
5. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
6. Web site: Bishops of Lincoln. www.tudorplace.com.ar. 2017-12-12.