Richard Longworth (academic)
Richard Longworth (died 1579) was an English churchman and academic, Master of St John's College, Cambridge and Dean of Chester.
Life
He was from Lancashire, and matriculated as a pensioner at St John's College in 1549. He graduated B.A. in 1553, M.A. in 1556, B.D. in 1563, and D.D. in 1567. He became a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge for the period 1553 to 1557; and a Fellow of St John's from 1559. He was university preacher in 1561, and Vice-Chancellor from 1567 to 1568.
Having been elected Master of St John's in 1564, he was deprived of the position in 1569, by
As Dean of Chester, appointed 1573, he was an absentee.[6] He was a non-resident rector of Cockfield, Suffolk from 1567, and was succeeded by John Knewstub, of similar views.[2]
Notes
- ^ "Longworth, Richard (LNGT549R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Churchill Babington, Materials for a history of Cockfield, Suffolk (1880), p. 35.
- ^ "The University of Cambridge: The sixteenth century | British History Online".
- ^ s:Curteys, Richard (DNB00)
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, article on Fulke.
- ^ "Chester Cathedral | British History Online".