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NEVILLE, RALPH (d. 1244)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 458 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEVILLE, See also:RALPH (d. 1244) , See also:bishop of See also:Chichester and See also:chancellor of See also:England, was a member of the See also:great Neville See also:family, but of illegitimate See also:birth. In 1214 he became See also:dean of See also:Lichfield, and obtained several See also:rich livings; and in 1224 he was consecrated bishop of Chichester. In 1226 he was appointed chancellor by the See also:council governing during the minority of See also:Henry III.; and when the See also:king in 1236 demanded the return of the great See also:seal, Neville refused to surrender it, on the ground that only the authority that had appointed him to the See also:office had See also:power to deprive him of it. In 1231 he was chosen See also:archbishop by the monks of See also:Canterbury, but the See also:election was not ratified by the See also:pope. He died in 1244. Neville's See also:residence in See also:London was a See also:palace in the See also:street opposite the See also:Temple, which from this association obtained the name of See also:Chancery See also:Lane, by which it is still known; while the palace itself, after passing into the hands of Henry de See also:Lacy, See also:earl of See also:Lincoln, was called Lincoln's See also:Inn after that nobleman when it became the See also:abode of students of See also:law. Neville bequeathed this See also:property to the see of Chichester, and the memory of his connexion with the locality is further preserved in the name of a passage leading from Chancery Lane to Lincoln's Inn which still bears the name of Chichester Rents.

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