{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Richard Witton''' (aka '''Richard Wytton'''<ref name="carr">Carr, William, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hzBc2Ur_9YIC&q=Richard+Wytton University College]'', Routledge, 1998. {{ISBN|978-0-415-18632-2}}. Chapter IV, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=hzBc2Ur_9YIC&pg=PA53&vq=Richard+Wytton The Fifteenth Century: Early Benefactors, Buildings, and Further Statutes]'' (pages 53–73).</ref>) was a Master of University College, Oxford, England.<ref name="history">Darwall-Smith, Robin, ''A History of University College, Oxford''. Oxford University Press, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-19-928429-0}}. Pages 53–54.</ref>
Witton was Fellow at University College and also a tenant of a College property. He became Master in 1423 or 1424, a post he held until 1428. He claimed that King Alfred had endowed the College with 78 Fellows, which was a complete fabrication.<ref name="history" /> The College was poorer at the end of his time as Master.<ref name="carr" />
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