Cuthbert Scott

Cuthbert Scott (or Scot) (died 9 October 1564) was a Catholic academic at the University of Cambridge and Bishop of Chester.Scott was made a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge in 1537, became M.A.Scott was appointed prebendary of York and, in 1554, of St Paul's, London.In 1556 he succeeded George Cotes, former Master of Balliol College, Oxford, as Bishop of Chester by papal provision.On the accession of Elizabeth I he was one of the four Catholic bishops chosen to defend Catholic doctrine at the conference at Westminster, and immediately after this he was sent as a prisoner to the Tower of London and then in the Fleet Prison 1559–1563.
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