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

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