Francis Leycester

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Francis Lockier, BD was the first dean of Peterborough. [1]

Leycester graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1521. [2] A Cluniac monk he was the last prior of St Andrew's Priory, Northampton. [3]

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References

  1. "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 8, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses." Deans Pages 118–122 Institute of Historical Research, London, 1996
  2. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/ John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209 to 1752–1900 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p329
  3. 'Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of St Andrew, Northampton', in A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2, ed. R M Serjeantson and W R D Adkins (London, 1906), pp. 102–109. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol2/pp102-109 [accessed 9 June 2016]
Church of England titles
Preceded by Dean of Peterborough
1541–1542
Succeeded by