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Cuthbert Scott

English bishop

Field	Value
type	Bishop
honorific_prefix	The Right Reverend
title	Bishop of Chester
death_date	9 October 1564
appointed	6 July 1556
term_end	21 June 1559
church	Roman Catholic
predecessor	George Cotes
successor	William Downham
death_place	Leuven
coat_of_arms	Cuthbert Scott Escutcheon.png

Cuthbert Scott (or Scot) (died 9 October 1564) was a Catholic academic at the University of Cambridge and Bishop of Chester.

Cambridge University

Scott was made a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1537, became M.A. in 1538 and was Master of Christ's College from 1553 to 1556.

In 1554 he became Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

He became D.D. of Cambridge University in 1547 and of Oxford University in 1554.

Church positions

Scott was appointed prebendary of York and, in 1554, of St Paul's, London. In 1556 he succeeded George Cotes, former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, as Bishop of Chester by papal provision.

On the accession of Elizabeth I he was one of the four Catholic bishops chosen to defend Catholic doctrine at the conference at Westminster, and immediately after this he was sent as a prisoner to the Tower of London and then in the Fleet Prison 1559–1563. Being released on bail, he contrived to escape to the Continent.

He died at Leuven, in what is now Belgium, on 9 October 1564.

References

"The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society.
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