Nicholas Bullingham

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Nicholas Bullingham (or Bollingham) (c. 1520–1576) was an English Bishop of Worcester.[1]

Life

Nicholas Bullingham was born in Worcester in around 1520. He was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester, after which he entered Oxford University. In 1543, he became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He then gained his DCL from Cambridge University.[1]

After his education in law, Bullingham entered the church, becoming private chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I. He then became Bishop of Lincoln[2] and finally returned to his old city as Bishop of Worcester until his death in 1576. While at Worcester, he greeted the Queen on her visit to the city in 1575.[1]

Bullingham is buried in Worcester Cathedral in an unusual tomb, with an inscribed tablet on his stomach.[3]

Marriages and issue

Bullingham married firstly Margaret Sutton (d.1566), daughter of Hamond Sutton of Washingborough, Lincolnshire, by whom he had two sons, Francis (1553–c.1636) and Nicholas (1566–1639), and two daughters, both named Susan, who died in 1561 and 1564 respectively.[4]

He married secondly, about 1569, Elizabeth Lok (1535–c.1581). She was the widow of the London mercer and alderman Richard Hill (d.1568), by whom she had had thirteen children, and was the daughter of Sir William Lok and his first wife, Alice Spenser (d.1522). By his second wife Bullingham had a son, John (baptized 1570).[5][6][4]

Notes

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  4. 4.0 4.1 Lock 2004.
  5. Sutton 2005, p. 391.
  6. McDermott 2004.

References

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Church of England titles
Preceded by Bishop of Lincoln
1560–1571
Succeeded by
Thomas Cooper
Preceded by Bishop of Worcester
1570–1576
Succeeded by
John Whitgift


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