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Thomas Langton D.Th. D.Cn.L. (died 27 January 1501) was chaplain to King Edward IV before becoming successively Bishop of St David’s Bishop of Salisbury Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop-elect of Canterbury.He was born in Appleby-in-Westmorland and educated by the Carmelite friars there. He matriculated at Queen’s College Oxford but soon removed to Cambridge probably to Clare Hall on account of the plague. In 1461 he was elected fellow of Pembroke Hall serving as proctor in 1462.

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