William Dudley
Religious Leader
– 1483
Who was William Dudley?
William Dudley was Dean of Windsor and then Bishop of Durham.
A younger son of John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, he was made a canon of St George's Chapel, Windsor, in 1471 and elevated to dean in 1473, a position which he held with that of dean of Wolverhampton: thereafter the two posts were customarily held by the same man.
He was nominated to Durham on 31 July 1476 and was consecrated between 1 September and 12 October 1476. In 1483 he supported Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the future King Richard III, in his bid for the Throne of England. In the last months of his life he was Chancellor of Oxford University. Dudley died on 29 November 1483.
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