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Francis Bacon
English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
Thomas More
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
Thomas Becket
English archbishop and martyr, 1119/1120–1170
Thomas Wolsey
English political figure, archbishop of York and cardinal-priest of Santa Cecilia (1473-1530)
Lord Chancellor
highest-ranking regularly-appointed Great Officer of State of the United Kingdom
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
English statesman and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1520-1598)
Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
English politician and founder of the Whig party (1621-1683)
Richard de Bury
Bishop of Durham; Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor of England; Lord High Treasurer of England (1287-1345)
Henry Beaufort
Lord Chancellor of England; Bishop of Lincoln; Bishop of Winchester
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
English politician and historian (1609–1674)
William Longchamp
Lord Chancellor of England; Bishop of Ely; Chief Justiciar of England
Stephen Gardiner
English bishop (1483-1555)
Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset
English politician and poet (1536-1608)
William Warham
Archbishop of Canterbury (1450-1532)
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
English military commander
John Morton
English prelate who served as Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
English diplomat (1585-1646)
Hubert Walter
Lord Chancellor of England; Bishop of Salisbury; Archbishop of Canterbury; Chief Justiciar of England (1160-1205)
Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich
English politician (1496-1567)
Simon Sudbury
Bishop of London; Archbishop of Canterbury; Lord Chancellor (1317-1381)
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
Welsh judge, aka the Hanging Judge (1645–1689)
Geoffrey
Archbishop of York
Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Lord Chancellor of England, Earl of Suffolk
Osmund
Norman nobleman and member of the English clergy
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
British Baron
John Bradshaw
English judge
Nicholas Bacon
English politician (1510-1579)
William of Wykeham
Bishop of Winchester; Lord Privy Seal of England; Lord Chancellor of England (1324-1404)
John Kemp
English cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor of England (1380-1454)
Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
British nobleman
Thomas Arundel
Lord Chancellor of England; Archbishop of York; Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of Ely
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
English politician
Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox
Scottish nobleman and politician (1574-1624)
Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden
English politician (1488–1544)
Thomas Bourchier
Lord Chancellor; Bishop of Worcester; Bishop of Ely; Archbishop of Canterbury
Christopher Hatton
English politician born 1540
Lawrence Booth
Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor; Bishop of Durham; Archbishop of York
William Courtenay
Archbishop of Canterbury
John Alcock
English churchman, bishop and Lord Chancellor (1430-1500)
Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley
English politician (1540–1617)
John Stafford
English ecclesiastic and Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1452)
Simon Langham
Bishop of Ely; Archbishop of Canterbury; Cardinal of St. Sixtus (1310-1376)
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton
English earl (1505-1550)
Walter Reynolds
Lord High Treasurer; Lord Chancellor; Bishop of Worcester; Archbishop of Canterbury
Roger of Salisbury
Norman medieval Bishop of Salisbury and the seventh Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England (1065-1139)
William Giffard
Lord Chancellor of England of William II and Henry I
Ralph Neville
Chancellor of England; Bishop of Chichester; Archbishop of Canterbury-elect
Thomas de Cantilupe
Bishop of Hereford; Saint
William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester
English official and peer
Gerard
Bishop of Hereford; Lord Chancellor; Archbishop of York
Maurice
Lord Chancellor of England; Bishop of London (1100-1107)
William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
English noble and politician
Robert Stillington
Bishop of Bath and Wells; Lord Privy Seal; Lord Chancellor
Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham
English politician
Henry Deane
Archbishop of Canterbury
Robert Burnell
Archbishop-elect of Canterbury; Bishop of Bath and Wells; Bishop-elect of Winchester
Bulstrode Whitelocke
English politician (1605-1675)
Walter de Gray
Lord Chancellor; Bishop of Worcester; Archbishop of York
George Neville
Archbishop of York and Chancellor of England (1433-1476)
William Waynflete
Lord Chancellor of England; Bishop of Winchester