George Shoreswood

Nicholas
Nicholas
Patrick Graham
Orders
Consecration	8 March – 1 July 1454
Personal details
Born	unknown; unknown
Died	1462 × 1463; unknown
Previous post(s)	Rector of Coulter;; Vicar of Haddington;; Chancellor of Dunkeld

George Shoreswood or Schoriswood (died 1462 × 1463), was a

English-speaking origin, from the family of Bedshiel in Berwickshire.^[1]

Shoreswood was a clerk of William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas in 1446, holding the rectorship of Coulter in Clydesdale.^[1] After the death of Earl James in February 1452, he became a royal clerk.^[1] He also became vicar of Haddington at some point, holding the office until becoming a bishop in 1454.^[1]

He was granted crown presentation to the Dunkeld chancellorship; this happened between 5 July 1451 and 22 June 1452, following the death of former chancellor Richard Clapham.

papal curia with two other claimants to the office, John MacDonald and Thomas Penven, but still held the office when appointed bishop of Brechin on 8 March 1454.^[2] He was still chancellor on 20 March, most likely giving the position up shortly before or else upon his consecration as bishop later in the year (sometime before 1 July).^[3]

Bishop George was

Patrick Graham.^[6]

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by George Clapham	Chancellor of Dunkeld 1451 × 1452–1454	Succeeded by John MacDonald
Preceded by John de Cranach	Bishop of Brechin 1454–1462 × 1463	Succeeded by Patrick Graham

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Dowden, Bishops, p. 186
^ ^a ^b ^c Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 145
^ Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp. 55, 145
^ Dowden, Bishops, pp. 185–86
^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 186, n. 2
^ Dowden, Bishops, p. 186; Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 55

References

Dowden, John (1912), Thomson, John Maitland (ed.), The Bishops of Scotland : Being Notes on the Lives of All the Bishops, under Each of the Sees, Prior to the Reformation, Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons
ISSN 0143-9448

[Dowden-186-1] Dowden, Bishops, p. 186

[FE-145-2] Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 145

[3] Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, pp. 55, 145

[4] Dowden, Bishops, pp. 185–86

[5] Dowden, Bishops, p. 186, n. 2

[6] Dowden, Bishops, p. 186; Watt and Murray, Fasti Ecclesiae, p. 55

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