Richard Wilkes
English cleric and academic, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge 1548-1553
About Richard Wilkes
Lived 1505 – 1556 (aged 50–51). Richard Wilkes was an English anglican priest, academic and college head.
Richard Wilkes was a priest and academic in the mid sixteenth century.
Watson was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1524; MA in 1527; and B.D. in 1537. He held livings at Littlebury, Pulham and Fen Ditton. He was Fellow of Queen's from 1526 to 1542; and Master of Christ's from 1548 to 1553.
He died on 15 October 1556.
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English cleric and academic, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge 1548-1553
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Richard Wilkes was an anglican priest, academic and college head.
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