William Glyn (bishop) explained

Type:Bishop
Ordination:8 September 1555
Death Date:21 May 1558
Birth Date:1504
Bishop of Bangor
Term End:1558
Appointed:21 June 1555
Predecessor:Arthur Bulkeley
Successor:Maurice Clenock
Church:Roman Catholic
Birth Place:Heneglwys, Anglesey
Ordained By:Edmund Bonner

William Glyn (1504 – 21 May 1558), also known as William Glynn or William Glynne, was the Bishop of Bangor from 1555 until his death.

He was born in Heneglwys, Anglesey and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, later becoming a fellow of that college and of Trinity. He was elected President of Queens' College in 1553, Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in the following year,[1] and Bishop of Bangor in 1555.

He had been pragmatic towards the religious changes of the Reformation but probably remained most sympathetic to Catholicism.

His brother Geoffrey Glyn had left property and money in his will in 1557 towards the founding of a grammar school in Bangor, which William Glyn and Maurice Griffith, Bishop of Rochester were intended to execute. Both these men were to die the following year before the intention could be executed, but ultimately Friars School, Bangor was set up.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of Vice-Chancellors. Cambridge University. 4 July 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080221013506/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/v-c/vicechancellors.html . 21 February 2008.