Henry Sever

{{Short description|English divine and educational administrator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Henry Sever''' DD (died 1471) was an English medieval divine and educational administrator.

Sever became the senior proctor at Merton College, Oxford in 1427. Sever was the chaplain and almoner of King Henry VI.<ref name="cdnb">{{cite book | title=The Concise Dictionary of National Biography | chapter=Henry Sever | volume=III: N–Z |publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1992 |page=2698 }}</ref> He was also the first Provost (head school governor) of Eton College, from 1440 to 1442.<ref name="clark">{{cite book | title=Of Mice and Men: Image, Belief and Regulation in Late Medieval England |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddBhSLy4XaQC&pg=PA130 | chapter=Thomas S. Freeman | first=Linda | last=Clark | publisher=Boydell Press | year=2005 |page=130 |isbn = 9781843831686}}</ref> He was the Chancellor of Oxford University during 1442–3.<ref name="hibbert">{{cite book |title=The Encyclopædia of Oxford | chapter=Appendix 5: Chancellors of the University | publisher=Macmillan | year=1988 | isbn=0-333-39917-X|editor-last=Hibbert|editor-first=Christopher|editor-link=Christopher Hibbert |pages=521–522 }}</ref> He became Prebendary (1445) and then Chancellor (1449) of St Paul's Cathedral in London.<ref name="cdnb" /> From 1455 until his death in 1471, he was the Warden of Merton College, Oxford.<ref name="vch">{{cite book |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63874 | title= A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford | chapter=Merton College | editor=Salter, H. E. |editor2=Lobal, Mary D. | publisher=Victoria County History | year=1954 |pages=95–106 }}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-aca}} {{succession box | title=Provost of Eton College | years=1440–1442 | before=None | after=William Waynflete }} {{succession box | title=Chancellor of the University of Oxford | years=1442–1443 | before=Thomas Gascoigne | after=Thomas Gascoigne }} {{succession box | title=Warden of Merton College, Oxford | years=1455–1471 | before=Elias Holcot | after=John Gigur }} {{s-end}}

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