. Historical portraits ... HENRY CHICHELEYFrom the portrait at Lambeth Palace ELIZABETH WOODVILLEFrom the portrait at Queens College, Cambridge Face p. 174 175 WILLIAM OF WAYNFLETE (1395-1486) son of Richard Patten and Margery Brereton, both of gentle blood, wasborn at Waynflete, Lincolnshire, educated at Winchester and NewCollege, Oxford, and patronized by Cardinal Beaufort. He tookorders in 1420, was one of the first batch of Fellows of Eton College,1440, Head Master in 1442 and Provost in the next year. He suc-ceeded Beaufort as Bishop of Winchester in 1447, and immediatelyset about his gre
. Historical portraits ... HENRY CHICHELEYFrom the portrait at Lambeth Palace ELIZABETH WOODVILLEFrom the portrait at Queens College, Cambridge Face p. 174 175 WILLIAM OF WAYNFLETE (1395-1486) son of Richard Patten and Margery Brereton, both of gentle blood, wasborn at Waynflete, Lincolnshire, educated at Winchester and NewCollege, Oxford, and patronized by Cardinal Beaufort. He tookorders in 1420, was one of the first batch of Fellows of Eton College,1440, Head Master in 1442 and Provost in the next year. He suc-ceeded Beaufort as Bishop of Winchester in 1447, and immediatelyset about his great foundation of Magdalen College at Oxford. Thistask he pursued, through all the changes of the political horizon ofthat stormy time, with single-hearted and generous devotion; and atthe end of his long life he entertained, in the earliest completedbuildings of that architectural miracle, two successive Kings ofEngland—in 1481 Edward IV and in July 1483 Richard HI, whenthat amiable monarch was busy arranging, or had jus
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