# Francis Leycester

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**Francis Lockier**, [BD](/source/Bachelor_of_Divinity) was the first [dean of Peterborough](/source/Dean_of_Peterborough).[1]

Leycester graduated from the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) in 1521.[2] A [Cluniac monk](/source/Cluniac_monk) he was the last [prior](/source/Prior_(ecclesiastical)) of [St Andrew's Priory, Northampton](/source/St_Andrew's_Priory,_Northampton).[3]

## References

1. "Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 8, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses." Deans Pages 118–122 [Institute of Historical Research](/source/Institute_of_Historical_Research), London, 1996

1. [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](/source/Alumni_Cantabrigienses), [John Venn](/source/John_Venn)/ [John Archibald Venn](/source/John_Archibald_Venn) [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) [> (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209 to 1752–1900 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p329](https://archive.org/stream/p1alumnicantabri03univuoft#page/72/mode/2up)

1. '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](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/northants/vol2/pp102-109) [accessed 9 June 2016]

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