biography
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William of Wykeham or Wickham
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pronunciation:
[wikam]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1324–1404)
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| biography:
| English statesman and clergyman, born in Wickham, Hampshire, S England, UK, the son perhaps of a serf, who rose to become the chief adviser of Edward III. He was appointed Keeper of the Privy Seal (1363), Bishop of Winchester (1367), and was twice Chancellor of England (1367–71, 1389–91). He founded New College, Oxford, and Winchester College to provide education for 70 poor scholars, both of which were fully established by the 1390s. |
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