Anthony Rushe D.D. (died 1 April 1577) was a Canon of Windsor from 1566 to 1577[1] and Dean of Chichester from 1570 to 1577.
Career edit
He was a scholar at The King's School, Canterbury and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford where he graduated BA in 1554. He was awarded MA in 1558 from Cambridge.
He was appointed:
- Master of The King's School, Canterbury 1561
- Chaplain to Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
- Rector of Woodham Walter, Essex 1565
- Rector of Brightling, Sussex 1565 - 1569
- Rector of Calverton, Buckinghamshire 1566
- Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I
- Rector of Osgarwick, Kent 1568
- Canon of Canterbury Cathedral 1568
- Rector of St Olave's Church, Southwark 1569
- Dean of Chichester 1570 - 1577
He was appointed to the fourth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1566 and held this until he died in 1577. He was buried in the chapel.
Notes edit
- ^ Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S. L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle