{{Short description|English priest in the late 15th and early 16th centuries}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Richard Lavender''' was an [[England|English]] [[priest]] in the late [[15th-century|15th]] and early [[16th-century|16th centuries]].<ref>"Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica: Antiquities in Leicestershire, Volume 7" p487: London; J. Nicols; 1790</ref>

Lavender was educated at [[Winchester College]] and [[New College, Oxford]].<ref>[https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf University of Leicester]</ref> He was [[Archdeacon of Leicester]] from 1485 until his death in 1508.<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst |first1=John |last2=Hardy |first2=Sir Thomas Duffus |author1-link=John Le Neve |author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Archdeacons of Leicester |wslink=Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.2_body_of_work_part_1.djvu/73 |series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2 |year=1854 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=59–63 |wspages=65–69 }}</ref>

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