Roger Rotherham was an English priest in the second half of the 15th century.[1]

Rotherham was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He was Warden of King's Hall, Cambridge from 1473 to 1477;[2] Archdeacon of Rochester from 1474 to 1475;[3] and Archdeacon of Leicester from 1474 to 1478.[4]

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  1. ^ "Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica: Antiquities in Leicestershire, Volume 7" p487: London; J. Nicols; 1790
  2. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p489
  3. ^ Jones, B. (1963), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541, vol. 4, pp. 41–42
  4. ^ Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). Archdeacons of Leicester . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 59–63  – via Wikisource.

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