Hugh Bellot

Bishop Hugh Bellot (1542 – 1596) was an English prelate during the Tudor period, who served as bishop of Bangor and then bishop of Chester.

Dr Bellot assisted William Morgan in his Welsh-language translation of the Bible.

Life

Bellot graduated B.A. from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1564, proceeding M.A. before election as a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in 1567,[1] later receiving the degree of D.D.

The third of ten sons of Thomas Bellot, lord of the manor of Moreton Magna, Cheshire by his wife Alice Roydon, a Welsh-speaker from Denbighshire, reputedly he was a misogynist.[2]

A younger brother, Cuthbert Bellot, became Archdeacon of Chester, whilst he also helped secure an advantageous marriage for his nephew, Edward Bellot with Amy Grosvenor, whose grandson was created a baronet.[3]

Bellot was consecrated as bishop of Bangor in 1585,[4] and was translated in 1595 to the see of Chester.[5] He died at Whitsuntide the following year at the Bishop's Palace, Chester being buried at Bersham, Denbighshire (now Clwyd).[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ "Bellot, Hugh (BLT561H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ↑ A. L. Rowse, The Expansion of Elizabethan England (2003 edition), p. 78.
  3. ↑ Burke's Extinct Baronetcies, BELLOT, Bt
  4. ↑ "Bishops". Churchineales.org. The Church in Wales. 2008-12-06. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  5. ↑ Records of Early English Drama: Cheshire including Chester
  6. ↑ "Cambrian Travellers Guide Wrexham 1840". Wrecsam.com. Retrieved 2016-07-15.

References

  •  Mew, James (1885). "Bellot, Hugh". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  • Williams, Glanmor. "Bellot, Hugh (1542–1596)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2060. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Nicholas Robinson		 Bishop of Bangor
1585–95		 Succeeded by
Richard Vaughan
Preceded by
William Chaderton		 Bishop of Chester
1595–96
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