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THOMAS ROTHERHAM (1423-1500)

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

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