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Dean of Westminster (also Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of York). Second son of Edmund Williams, Conway, Caernarvonshire, and Mary, dau. of Owen Wynn, Eglwsfach, Cardiganshire ; b. 25 Mar 1581/2 ; educ. Ruthin Sch. and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, matr.sizar Easter 1598 ; BA 1601/2 ; MA 1605 (incorp. Oxford 1608) ; BD 1613 ; DD 1616 ; Junior Proctor 1610, Senior Proctor 1611 ; Fellow, St.John’s Coll.Cambridge 14 Apr 1603 ; ordained priest 22 Dec 1605 (London) ; incumbent, Honington, Suffolk 17 Oct 1605-12 ; Archdeacon of Cardigan 1610 ; incumbent, Grafton Underwood, Northants 1612 ; Chaplain to Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor c.1612-7 ; Prebendary of Hereford Jul 1612 ; Prebendary of Lincoln 10 Oct 1613, Precentor 29 Dec 1613 – resignation 1641, also Canon Residentiary Sep 1614-41; Rector of Walgrave, Northants 1614 ; Prebendary of Peterborough Jun 1616 – resignation 1621 ; Chaplain in Ordinary to James I ; Dean of Salisbury Sep 1619-20 ; Dean of Westminster 10 Jul 1620-42 ; Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 15 Jun 1621- Oct 1625 ; Privy Councillor 18 Jun 1621, dismissal Feb 1631/2 ; Bishop of Lincoln 3 Aug 1621-41 ; suspended from benefices and offices and imprisoned in Tower of London Jul 1637 ; released by order of House of Lords 16 Nov 1640 ; Archbishop of York from Dec 1641 ; again imprisoned in Tower of London Jan-May 1642 ; resident on his estates and with friends in North Wales from Oct 1642 ; d.unm. 25 Mar 1649/50. ODNB.
In 1623, while Dean of Westminster, he purchased two fee farm rents of £14 and £13 6s 8d respectively, issuing respectively out of the manors of Sudbury and of Great Stanmore, both in Middlesex. By a deed dated 26 Apr 1624 he declared that the Dean and Chapter of Westminster should hold these rents in trust for four scholars of his own foundation, two of whom should be natives of Wales and two natives of the diocese of Lincoln, “to be educated and maintained in the Grammar School of St.Peter’s College in Westminster, and there to have their free education until they shall be from thence elected and transplanted into St.John’s College, Cambridge”. Amongst other provisions he ordered that each of the four scholars should be paid £5 annually “towards their diet and maintenance”, and 20s. should be allowed each scholar for “a gown of cloth which shall be purple in colour”.
By letters patent dated 30 Dec 1623, having previously given certain benefices and lands for their support, he founded two fellowships and four scholarships in St.John’s College, Cambridge, and ordained that the four scholars of the foundation should be chosen from the scholars of his foundation at Westminster, two to be natives of Wales and two of the diocese of Lincoln, or for want of boys so qualified boys born within the liberties of Westminster.
Adequate funds were not, however, provided to carry out the scheme, and although four boys, known first as Lord’s Scholars and afterwards as Bishop’s Boys, were annually elected at the School, few of them were afterwards admitted to the scholarships at St.John’s College.
Investigation was made into the trust in the Court of Exchequer, and in 1836 the Master entrusted with the inquiry found that the original deed of foundation, if ever executed, was lost or not to be discovered, but that certain of its intended provisions were recited in a deed conveying a rent charge for the benefit of the foundation. A subsequent order of the Court directed the election of four scholars from boys born in Wales or in the diocese of Lincoln alternately, and, in default of these, from Westminster. The boys were to be provided with their gowns, and to receive the rest of their dividends in books.
Dr Liddell, when Head Master, abolished the purple gowns and agreed to remit the tuition and entrance fees of the Bishop’s Boys on condition that the money payable to each boy was added yearly to the School’s funds. In 1872 the Governors of the School repealed the trusts relating to this benefaction by statute, and the endowment was then consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and commemorated with three exhibitions known as the Bishop Williams exhibitions.
By a statute made by the Cambridge University Commissioners, dated 22 May 1857, all preferences in favour of particular schools in the election to scholarships at St.John’s College were abolished in cases where such right to preference had not been exercised within the three years prior to the passing of the Cambridge University Act 1856

Trench, Richard Chenevix; Dean of Westminster (afterwards Archbishop of Dublin). Third son of Richard Trench, Dublin, Ireland, barrister at law, and Melesina, dau. of Philip Chenevix ; b. 5 Sep 1807 ; educ. Harrow Sch. and Trinity Coll.Cambridge ; BA 1829 ; MA 1833 ; BD 1850 ; ordained deacon 7 Oct 1832 (Norwich), priest 5 Jul 1835 ; successively Curate, Hadleigh, Suffolk, St.Peter’s, Colchester, Essex and Alverstoke, Hampshire ; Rector of Itchenstoke, Hampshire 1844-56 ; Professor of Divinity, King’s Coll.London 1847-56 ; Dean of Westminster 14 Oct 1856 – Dec 1863 ; consecrated Archbishop of Dublin 1 Jan 1864, resigning on account of failing health Nov 1884 ; author, works on divinity, philology, history and literature, as well as volumes of verse ; m. 31 May 1832 his cousin Frances Mary, dau. of Francis Trench, Sopwell Hall, co.Tipperary, Ireland ; d. 26 Mar 1886. Buried in nave, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
From 1857 to 1863, while Dean of Westminster, he made an annual gift of ten guineas in books as prizes for knowledge of the Greek Testament, and this was continued by his successors as Dean.

Triplett, Thomas; Son of Robert Triplett, City of London, stationer, and Margery Cartwright ; bapt.St.Nicholas Cole Abbey, City of London 6 Apr 1602 ; educ. St.Paul’s Sch. and Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Mar 1620/1, aged 18 ; BA 1622 ; MA 1625 ; DD 1661 ; ordained ; Vicar of Woodhorn, Northumberland 1630 ; Rector of Whitburn, co.Durham 1631 ; Vicar of Washington, co.Durham 10 Apr 1640 – ejected 10 Sep 1644, reinstated 1660 -2 ; Prebendary of York from 2 Aug 1641 ; Prebendary of Salisbury Oct 1645 (but not installed until 17 Sep 1660) – resignation Mar 1662 ; Prebendary of Durham 20 Mar 1648/9 (but not installed until 2 Nov 1660) – resignation Mar 1662 ; Prebendary of Westminster from 1662, Sub-Dean ; d. unm. 18 Jul 1670. Buried South Cloister, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
By an indenture dated 21 Dec 1668 he granted certain lands at Haughley, Suffolk, to trustees, upon trust, after the death of his sister Katherine Warne and her children, to pay out of the income £20 annually to the Dean, Sub-Dean and two senior Prebendaries of Westminster “in trust for foure of the worthy Schollers of the Free Schoole of Westminster that want means to subsist att the University”. The benefaction subsequently provided two or more exhibitions annually, tenable for three years at any college at Oxford or Cambridge, of an annual value not exceeding £50, in addition to gratuities awarded on their leaving to such boys as the trustees considered deserving.
The endowment is currently held in the School’s Rev.Dr.Triplett’s Foundation, under a scheme of 21 Mar 1857, as varied by schemes of 14 Mar 1873, 10 Aug 1910, 19 Sep 1954, 16 Apr 1959 and 8 Nov 1959.

Patron of the School; By letters patent addressed to Trinity College, Cambridge, dated 27 June 1607, he recapitulated and confirmed Elizabeth’s injunctions, and at the same time enjoined the election of Westminster scholars at Trinity to fellowships at that college.

Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burghley; only son of Richard Cecil MP, Little Burghley, Northants, Yeoman of the Wardrobe to Henry VIII, and Jane, dau. of William Heckington, Bourne, Lincs. ; b. 18 Sep 1520 (or 1521) ; educ. at schools in Stamford and St.John’s Coll.Cambridge, adm. May 1535 ; MA 1564 (incorp. Oxford 1566) ; adm.Gray’s Inn 1541 ; MP unknown constituency 1542, Stamford 1547, Lincolnshire 1553, 1555, 1559, Northamptonshire 1563 ; Recorder of Boston from 14 May 1545, of Stamford by 1580 ; entered service of Protector Somerset 1547, becoming his secretary in 1548 ; Custos Brevium, Court of Common Pleas 6 May 1548 ; imprisoned in Tower of London Nov 1549 – Jan 1550 ; Secretary of State Sep 1550 – Jul 1553 ; Privy Councillor Sep 1550 ; knighted 11 Oct 1551 ; lived in retirement during reign of Mary I, except for a mission in 1554 to bring Cardinal Pole to England ; returned to favour on accession of Elizabeth I ; Secretary of State (reappointed) 17 Nov 1558 – Jul 1572 ; Chancellor, Cambridge Univ., from 1559 ; Master, Court of Wards, from Jan 1560/1 ; cr. Baron Burghley 25 Feb 1570/1 ; KG 1572 ; Lord High Treasurer from Jul 1572 ; High Steward of Westminster from 1561 ; m.1st, 8 Aug 1541 Mary, dau. of Peter Cheke, Esquire Bedell in Divinity, Cambridge Univ., , and sister of Sir John Cheke Kt, academic and courtier ; m.2nd, 21 Dec 1545 Mildred (see above), dau. of Sir Anthony Cooke KB MP, Gidea Hall, Essex ; d. 4 May 1598. ODNB.
By deed poll dated 10 Apr 1594 he granted two farm rents, of £10 and £3 6s 8d respectively, payable out of Finchstock and Fawler in the parish of Charlbury, Oxfordshire, to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, “in trust, to bestow the same in money, books, or otherwise, as necessity or occasion shall be, upon such or so many scholars that shall yearly be chosen or elected from or out of, the free grammar school of Westminster to either of the … Universities, in such sort, manner, or form, as the Dean of Westminster for the time being, and the two principal electors that shall come from Cambridge and Oxford, and the chief schoolmaster of the said free grammar school of Westminster for the time being, in their good discretions, shall think most meet and convenient, and to no other use intent or purpose”. The income was subsequently consolidated with the School Exhibition Fund, and the benefaction commemorated by an exhibition known as the Lord Burghley exhibition.

Patron of the School; When Prince of Wales he gave £500 towards the cost of building the present College Dormitory.

Patron of the School; She gave £800 towards the fund for the improvement of College Dormitory in 1846.

Patron of the School; Dean of Westminster. Son of John Bill, Ashwell, Hertfordshire, and Margaret --- ; b. ; educated at St.John’s Coll., Cambridge ; BA 1532/3 ; MA 1536 ; BD 1544 ; DD 1547 ; ordained ; Fellow of St.John’s Coll. Nov 1535 – Mar 1547, Master of St.John’s Coll. 10 Mar 1546/7 – Nov 1551 ; Greek Reader, Cambridge Univ. 1541-3, subsequently Linacre Lecturer in Physic ; Rector of Sutton, Bedfordshire from 9 Jun 1547, and of Sandy, Bedfordshire, from 19 Mar 1550/1 ; Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge Univ. 1548/9 ; Master of Trinity Coll., Cambridge Nov 1551 – deprived 1553, and from 11 Jan 1559 ; Chaplain Extraordinary to Edward VI Dec 1551 ; Almoner to Elizabeth I Nov 1558 ; Provost of Eton from Jul 1559 ; Prebendary of Lincoln from Sep 1559 ; Dean of Westminster from 21 May 1560 (installed 30 June 1560) ; d. unm. 15 July 1561. Buried St.Benedict’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
He drew up the statutes for the regulation of the College, and by his will dated 6 May 1561, proved 17 Dec 1561, left some plate to the College and some furniture for the scholars’ beds.

Ireland, John; Dean of Westminster. Son of Thomas Ireland, Ashburton, Devon, butcher, and Elizabeth --- ; b. 29 Sep 1761 ; educ. Ashburton GS ; Oriel Coll.Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1779, bible clerk ; BA 1783 ; MA 1810 ; BD and DD 1810 ; MA Lambeth 1793 ; DD Lambeth 1803 ; ordained deacon 20 Jun 1784, priest 25 Sep 1785 (both Exeter) ; Curate, Kingsteignton, Devon 1784 ; tutor to son of Sir James Wright, Bart. ; Vicar of Croydon, Surrey 15 Jul 1793- Mar 1816 ; Vicar of Shoreham, Kent 27 Nov 1806 – Jun 1816 ; Chaplain to Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool ; Canon of Westminster 14 Aug 1802-16, Sub-Dean 1806-16, Dean of Westminster from 1816 ; Rector of Islip, Oxfordshire 26 Mar 1816 – Oct 1835 ; m. 29 Jan 1794 Susannah, dau. of John Short, Bickham, Devon ; d. 2 Sep 1842. Buried South Transept, Westminster Abbey. ODNB.
In 1820 he gave £500 3 per cent Consols to the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Head Master of the School for the time being, the interest on which was to be applied for the purchase of books, which as “Dean’s Prizes” were to be given to encourage verse composition. The prizes were subsequently known as the Ireland Prizes. The endowment is now held in the School’s Ireland Fund (terms varied by schemes of 19 Apr 1965 and 8 Nov 1965).