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GILBERT SHELDON (1598-1677)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 827 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GILBERT SHELDON (1598-1677)  , archbishop of Canterbury, was born at Stanton in the parish of Ellastone,
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Staffordshire, and educated at Oxford . He was ordained in 1622 and was appointed
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chaplain to Thomas Lord Coventry (1578-1640) . Four years later he was elected
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warden of All Souls' College, Oxford . During the years 1632-1639 he received the livings of Hackney (1633); Oddington, Oxfordshire; Ickford, Buckingham-
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shire (1636); and Newington, Oxfordshire; besides being a prebendary of Gloucester from 1632 . In 1638 he was on a commission appointed to visit Merton College, Oxford . He was intimate with the Royalist leaders, participated in the negotiations for the
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Uxbridge treaty of 1644, and collected funds for Charles II. in exile . In 1648 he was ejected from All Souls' by order of parliament, and imprisoned for some months, but he regained the wardenship in 1659 . In i66o he became bishop of
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London and master of the Savoy, and the Savoy
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Conference was held at his lodgings . He was consecrated archbishop of Canter-bury in 1663 . He was greatly interested in the welfare of Oxford University, of which he became chancellor in 1667, succeeding Clarendon (1609-1674) . The Sheldonian theatre at Oxford was built and endowed at his expense .

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