Cuthbert Scott
English bishop
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::summary English bishop ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | Bishop |
| honorific_prefix | The Right Reverend |
| title | Bishop of Chester |
| death_date | 9 October 1564 |
| appointed | 6 July 1556 |
| term_end | 21 June 1559 |
| church | Roman Catholic |
| predecessor | George Cotes |
| successor | William Downham |
| death_place | Leuven |
| coat_of_arms | Cuthbert Scott Escutcheon.png |
| :: |
| type = Bishop | honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend | title = Bishop of Chester | death_date = 9 October 1564 | appointed = 6 July 1556 | term_end = 21 June 1559 | church = Roman Catholic | predecessor = George Cotes | successor = William Downham | death_place = Leuven | coat_of_arms = Cuthbert Scott Escutcheon.png Cuthbert Scott (or Scot) (died 9 October 1564) was a Catholic academic at the University of Cambridge and Bishop of Chester.
Cambridge University
Scott was made a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1537, became M.A. in 1538 and was Master of Christ's College from 1553 to 1556.
In 1554 he became Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
He became D.D. of Cambridge University in 1547 and of Oxford University in 1554.
Church positions
Scott was appointed prebendary of York and, in 1554, of St Paul's, London. In 1556 he succeeded George Cotes, former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, as Bishop of Chester by papal provision.
On the accession of Elizabeth I he was one of the four Catholic bishops chosen to defend Catholic doctrine at the conference at Westminster, and immediately after this he was sent as a prisoner to the Tower of London and then in the Fleet Prison 1559–1563. Being released on bail, he contrived to escape to the Continent.
He died at Leuven, in what is now Belgium, on 9 October 1564.
References
References
- "The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society.
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