{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} thumb|Samuel Radcliffe '''Samuel Radcliffe''' ({{circa|1580}} – 26 June 1648) was an Oxford academic and clergyman.<ref>"The History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford":, Vol 3 p364 à Wood, A: Oxford; Clarendon; 1786</ref>
Radcliffe was born in Lancashire. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, matriculating in 1597 aged 17, graduating B.A. 1601, M.A. 1604, B.D. 1611, D.D. 1615.<ref name="alum-oxon">{{cite book |contribution = Rabbetts-Rhodes |title = Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 |title-link = Alumni Oxonienses |editor-last = Foster |editor-first = Joseph |editor-link = Joseph Foster (genealogist) |publisher = Oxford |year = 1891 |pages = 1227–1250 |via = British History Online |contribution-url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1227-1250 |access-date = 19 July 2022 }}</ref> In the church, he held livings at Steeple Aston (where he founded a school in 1640<ref>{{cite web|website=Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire|title=Dr Radcliffe's CE Primary School|url=https://www.steepleaston.org.uk/about-our-village/schools/dr-radcliffes-school/|access-date=19 July 2022}}</ref>) and Boxford.
He was university proctor in 1610,<ref name="alum-oxon"/> and was appointed Principal of Brasenose in 1614.<ref>{{cite web|website=Brasenose College, University of Oxford|title=Principals – list of past and present|url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/history/216-brasenose-people/413-principals-list-of-past-and-present|access-date=19 July 2022}}</ref>
During the Parliamentary occupation of Oxford (Parliament had captured Oxford at the Siege of Oxford in 1646), Radcliffe refused to recognise the authority of the Parliamentary visitors, who issued an order expelling Radcliffe as Principal in January 1648, and appointed Daniel Greenwood as Principal on 29 February. On 13 April the Chancellor visited Brasenose to invest Greenwood with the office. Radcliffe, by then in terminal ill health, did not leave Brasenose.<ref name="brasenose-principals">{{cite web|website=Brasenose College, University of Oxford|title=Principals of Brasenose|url=https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/history/216-brasenose-people/470-principals-of-brasenose|access-date=20 July 2022}}</ref> He wrote his will on 24 April 1648, leaving bequests to Brasenose and to the school which he had founded at Steeple Aston.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lane|first=Geoffrey|website=Steeple Aston Archive|title=Dr Radcliffe – An old man looks back|url=https://www.steepleastonarchive.org.uk/uploads/5/3/2/1/5321853/dr_radcliffe-_an_old_man_looks_back.pdf|access-date=20 July 2022}}</ref> On 1 June, the Visitors ordered Radcliffe to give up his books and keys to Greenwood, or face house arrest by a guard of soldiers for which he would pay himself.<ref name="brasenose-principals"/>
Radcliffe died on 26 June 1648, and was buried in St Mary's Church.<ref name="alum-oxon"/>
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