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EDMUND GONVILE (d. 1351)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 235 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDMUND GONVILE (d. 1351)  , founder of Gonville Hall, now Gonville and Caius College, at Cambridge, England, is thought to have been the son of William de Gonvile, and the
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brother of
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Sir Nicholas Gonvile . In 1320 he was rector of Thelnetham, Suffolk, and steward there for William,
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earl Warren and the earl of Lancaster . Six years later he was rector of Rushworth, and in 1342 rector of Terrington St John and
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commissioner for the marshlands of Norfolk . In this
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year he founded and endowed a collegiate church at Rushworth, sup-pressed in 1541 . The foundation of Gonville Hall at Cambridge was effected by a charter granted by
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Edward III. in 1348 . It was called, officially, the Hall of the
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Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, but was usually known as Gunnell or Gonville Hall . Its
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original site was in
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Free-school Lane, • where Corpus Christi College now stands . Gonvile apparently wished it to be devoted to training for theological study, but after his
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death the foundation was completed by William Bateman, bishop of Norwich and founder of Trinity Hall, on a different site and with considerably altered statutes .

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