Robert Hacomblen

Robert Hacomblen (also spelt Hacomplaynt, Hacumplaynt, Hacomplayne, Hacomblene, Hacumblen) (1455 or 1456, London – 1528, Cambridge), was provost of King's College, Cambridge.

Career and legacy Hacomblen was educated at Eton, where he was admitted a scholar of King's College, Cambridge in 1472.

As provost he was party to the contract entered into in 1526 for filling the windows of King's College chapel with stained glass. He gave the brass lectern still in use in the chapel, which bears his name. The Lectern is fitted up the chantry, the second from the west on the south side, in which, in accordance with his will, dated 21 Oct. 1528, he was buried. His memorial brass represents him in doctor's robes, with the legend issuing from his mouth, "Vulnera Christe tua mihi dulcis sint medicina", and penitential prayers on the label running round the slab. In the window is his shield in painted glass, "vert, a saltire between four lilies slipped argent".

Hacomblen was a man of learning of the standard of his day, and of some accomplishments, being the probable author of a musical setting of Salve Regina for Eton Chapel, c. 1500 preserved in the Eton Choirbook and there attributed to Hacomplaynt. Some laudatory verses by Hartwell, who entered the college in 1559, are written at the foot of the manuscript.