Richard Arche

Richard Arche (also Archer) LL.B., D.C.L. was a Canon of Windsor from 1538 to 1553

Career He was appointed: Vicar of Ramsbury, Wiltshire 1518 Vicar of Avebury, Wiltshire 1520 Principal of Broadgates Hall, now Pembroke College, Oxford 1526 Chaplain to Henry VIII of England 1538 Rector of Hanney, Berkshire 1543 Treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral 1551 Prebendary of Faringdon in Salisbury Cathedral 1524 Rector of Clewer 1554

He was appointed to the ninth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1538, a position he held until 1553, when he was deprived of the living. He was a confessor to the Windsor Martyrs.