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HENRY WARDLAW (d. 1440)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY WARDLAW (d. 1440)  , Scottish prelate, was a son of
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Sir Andrew Wardlaw and a
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nephew of Walter Wardlaw (d . 1390), bishop of
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Glasgow, who is said to have been made a cardinal by the anti-pope Clement VII. in 1381 . Educated at the
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universities of Oxford and of Paris, Henry Wardlaw returned to Scotland about 1385, and owing to his influential connexions received many benefices in the Church . He passed some time at
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Avignon, and it was whilst he was residing at the papal court that he was chosen bishop of St Andrews, being consecrated in 1403 . Returning to Scotland he acted as tutor to the future king, James I., and finished the
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work of restoring his
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cathedral . Then having helped to bring about the release of James from his captivity in England, he crowned this king in May 1424, and afterwards acted as one of his
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principal advisers . He appears to have been an excellent bishop, although he tried to suppress the teaching of John Wycliffe by burning its advocates . He died on the 6th of
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April 1440 . Wardlaw's chief title to fame is the fact that he was the founder of the university of St Andrews, the first Scottish university . He issued the charter of foundation in
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February 1411, and the privileges of the new seat of learning were confirmed by a bull of Pope Benedict XIII., dated the 28th of August 1413 .

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