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ROTHERHAM, THOMAS (1423-1500)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 757 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROTHERHAM, See also:THOMAS (1423-1500) , See also:archbishop of See also:York, also called THOMAS See also:SCOT, was See also:born at Rotherham on the 24th of See also:August 1423; he was educated in his native See also:town and seems to have been connected with both the See also:universities of See also:Oxford and See also:Cambridge. Having enjered the See also:church he became See also:rector of Ripple, See also:Worcestershire, and later of St Vedast, See also:Foster See also:Lane, See also:London, and it was probably when he was See also:chaplain to See also:John de See also:Vere, See also:earl of Oxford, that he made the acquaintance of See also:Elizabeth Woodville, afterwards the See also:queen of See also:Edward IV. In 1467 Rotherham became keeper of the privy See also:seal to this See also:king; in 1468 he was appointed See also:bishop of See also:Worcester, in 1472 bishop of See also:Lincoln and in 1475 See also:chancellor of See also:England. Several times he went to See also:France on public business; in 1475 at the treaty of Picquigny he received a See also:pension from See also:Louis XI. of France, and in 1480 he was chosen archbishop of York. When Edward IV. died in See also:April 1483 the archbishop remained true to his widow Elizabeth, and consequently lost the chancellorship and was put into See also:prison by See also:Richard III. He was soon set at See also:liberty, and he died in 1500 at Cawood, near York. At Oxford Rotherham built See also:part of Lincoln See also:College and increased its endowment; at Cambridge, where he was chancellor and See also:master of See also:Pembroke See also:Hall, he helped to build the University Library. He founded a college at Rotherham, which was suppressed under Edward VI., and he was responsible for the See also:building of part of the church of All See also:Saints there.

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