Gilbert Sheldon (1599-1677; ODNB), warden of All Souls Coll. Oxford, 1636-48, ejected and imprisoned by parliamentarians as a royalist and sympathiser with Laudianism; bishop of London, 1660-3; archbishop of Canterbury, 1663-77; he provided the funds for the construction of the University theatre at Oxford, known as the Sheldonian.

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• 17 Mar 1921
• 17 Dec 1922