{{Short description|Bishop of Colchester from 1536 to 1541}} {{Other people|William More}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} '''William More''' was appointed [[Bishop of Colchester]] to deputise within the [[Diocese of Ely]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/ssc/ocr.html|title=A Statement of the Society of the Holy Cross concerning the Order of Corporate Reunion|website=anglicanhistory.org}}</ref> under the provisions of the [[Suffragan Bishops Act 1534]] in 1536 and held the post until his death in 1541.<ref>[http://www.rhs.ac.uk/bibl/wwwopac.exe?&database=dcatalo&rf=000259319&SUCCESS=false&SRT2=ti&SEQ2=ascending Will details]</ref> Educated at [[Cambridge University]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Andrew A.|last=Chibi|title=More, William (d. 1540/41)|id=19195}}</ref>

==Life== He is said to have been educated at both [[Oxford University|Oxford]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp921-955|title=Lloyd-Lytton &#124; British History Online|website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> and [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]].<ref>{{acad|id= MR531W|name=More, William}}</ref> He first appears as rector of [[Bradwell-on-Sea|Bradwell]] in [[Essex]], having been collated 25 April 1534. On 5 October of the same year he was further collated to the rectory of [[West Tilbury]] in the same county, and then held the degree S.T.B.

On 20 October 1536 he was consecrated bishop of Colchester as suffragan to the Bishop of Ely. He was a master in chancery at the time. He became abbot of [[Walden Abbey|Walden]] ''[[in commendam]]'' at an unknown date. As abbot he presented to the vicarage of Walden on 29 September 1537 and was afterwards vicar there himself till his death.

On 22 March 1538 he surrendered the abbey of Walden on receiving a promise from Lord Audley to buy the [[archdeaconry of Leicester]] for him from his predecessor for £80. He obtained the archdeaconry in 1539 and died in 1540 or 1541.<ref name = DNB>{{cite DNB|wstitle=More, William (d.1540)|volume=38}}</ref>

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