Robert Pursglove
Robert Pursglove (alias "Sylvester";[1] 1504–1579) was an English sixteenth-century bishop.
Life
He was born in
He was made provost of Jesus College,
In 1559, the year of his deprivation, he obtained letters patent from Elizabeth I to found a grammar school at Tideswell. On 5 June 1563, he also obtained letters patent to found a similar school, bearing the same name, and also a hospital, or almshouse, at Guisborough in North Yorkshire.
Pursglove resided in his last years partly at Tideswell and partly at Dunston in the same county. He died on 2 May 1579, and was buried in Tideswell church where a monumental brass in the floor shows him dressed as a bishop in alb, stole and chasuble (robes worn up to the reign of Mary I, but banned under the Elizabethan Church Settlement).
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References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Pursglove, Robert". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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