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Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of NorthumberlandJohn Dudley was seven years old when his father, Edmund Dudley, was executed for high treason in 1510. The new king, Henry VIII, needed scapegoats for the…
- Stephen GardinerStephen Gardiner entered the world in Bury St Edmunds on the 27th of July 1483, though historians still debate the exact year.
- Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of SomersetEdward Seymour was born around the year 1500. He entered the household of Mary Tudor, Queen of France, in 1514 at about fourteen years old.
- William Cecil, 1st Baron BurghleyWilliam Cecil arrived in the world on the 13th of September 1520 within the quiet village of Bourne, Lincolnshire. His father Sir Richard Cecil owned the…
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of EssexRobert Devereux entered the world on the 10th of November 1565 at Netherwood in Herefordshire. He was the eldest son of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex…
- Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of SalisburyRobert Cecil stood barely five feet tall with a spine curved by scoliosis. Queen Elizabeth I called him my pygmy while King James I nicknamed him my little…
- Thomas CromwellThomas Cromwell is thought to have been born by or around 1485 in Putney, then a village in Surrey providing a ferry service across the Thames upstream from…
- John FisherJohn Fisher entered the world around the 19th of October 1469 in Beverley, Yorkshire. His father Robert worked as a prosperous mercer who died in 1477 when…
- Reginald PoleReginald Pole entered the world at Stourton Castle in Staffordshire on the 12th of March 1500. He was the third son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole…