Cuthbert Bellott

Cuthbert Bellott was an Anglican priest in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.[1]

Bellott was born in Moreton, Cheshire and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1586.[2] He was appointed Canon (9th Prebend) of Westminster Abbey[3] in 1594[4] and Archdeacon of Chester in 1596.[5] He died in 1620.

References

1. "Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum" p522: London; King George; 1808
2. Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p152
3. "History of the city of Chester, from its foundation to the present time : with an account of its antiquities, curiosities, local customs, and peculiar immunities ; and a concise political history" Hemingway, J Chester' J. Fletcher; 1831 p326
4. British History On-line
5. Horn, Joyce M.; Smith, David M.; Mussett, Patrick (2004), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 11, pp. 45–47