William Este

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William Este was an English priest in the 16th century. [1]

Este was educated at the University of Oxford. [2] A Benedictine, he held the living at St Mary Magdalen, Milk Street in the City of London; was a Canon of Windsor and Rector and Archdeacon of St Albans from 1550 until 1556. [3]

Notes

  1. "The History and Antiquities of Windsor Castle, and the Royal College" Pote, J p411: Eton; J.Pote; 1749
  2. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Eade-Eyton
  3. Horn, Joyce M. (1974), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 3, p. 59


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