Edward More (churchman)

Edward More (1480–1541) was an English churchman and educator, Archdeacon of Lewes from 1527 to 1541.[1]

Life

Described as of Havant, he was elected a scholar of Winchester College in 1492. He went on to New College, Oxford, and supplicated for the degree of B.D. in 1518. From 1498 to 1502, he held a fellowship at Winchester and was head-master from 1508 to 1517. He was at a later date appointed canon of Chichester Cathedral, was instituted vicar of Isleworth on 3 March 1514–15, and on resigning that living in August 1521, became rector of Cranford.[2]

On 29 October 1526, More was admitted the eighth warden of Winchester College, and held that office, together with the rectory of Cranford, till his death.[3] From 1528 to 1531, he was also archdeacon of Lewes. As a schoolmaster, he was reckoned a stern disciplinarian. In the Latin poem descriptive of the wardens of Winchester (in Richard Willes's Poemata, 1573), Christopher Johnson wrote:[2]

Qui legit hic Morum, qui non et sensit eundem,
Gaudeat, et secum molliter esse putet.

(Translation: "He who reads More here, and has not felt him, let him rejoice, and think himself well off".) As a pedagogue, he carried on the traditions of William Horman; in religion, he passed the baton to another conservative Catholic, John White, who followed him as headmaster and as warden.[4]

More died in 1541 and was buried in the choir of Winchester College Chapel.[2]

References
  1. ”Chichester Diocese Clergy Lists:Clergy succession from the earliest times to the year 1900" Hennessy,G: London, St Peter's Press, 1900
  2. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "More, Edward" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. Kirby, Thomas Frederick (1888). Winchester scholars. A list of the wardens, fellows, and scholars of Saint Mary college of Winchester, near Winchester, commonly called Winchester college. London: H. Frowde.
  4. Custance, R. D. H. "More, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19175. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "More, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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