Richard Arche

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Richard Arche (also Archer) LL.B., D.C.L. was a Canon of Windsor from 1538 to 1553

He was appointed:

Vicar of Ramsbury, Wiltshire 1518

Vicar of Avebury, Wiltshire 1520

Principal of Broadgates Hall, now Pembroke College, Oxford 1526

Chaplain to Henry VIII of England 1538

Rector of Hanney, Berkshire 1543

Prebendary of Faringdon in Salisbury Cathedral 1524

Rector of Clewer 1554

He was appointed to the ninth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1538, a position he held until 1553, when he was deprived of the living. He was a confessor to the Windsor Martyrs.

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