Edmund Birkhead, D.D. was

Bishop of St Asaph The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph. The diocese covers the counties of Conwy and Flintshire, Wrexham county borough, the eastern part of Merioneth in Gwynedd and part of northern Powys. The Episcopal seat is loca ...

from 1513 until 1518.Hardy, T. Duffus. ''Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae; or, a Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the Chief Officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge from the Earliest Times to the Year MDCCXV, Corrected and Continued to the Present Time,'' Vol. I, " St. Asaph's". Oxford Univ. Press, 1854. Accessed 06 Jan 2018. Birkhead was born in

Cheshire Cheshire ( ) is a ceremonial and historic county in North West England, bordered by Wales to the west, Merseyside and Greater Manchester to the north, Derbyshire to the east, and Staffordshire and Shropshire to the south. Cheshire's county t ...

and educated at the University of Cambridge. He was buried at Wrexham. 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 I. The earliest times to 1752 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts'', (1922) p158
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16th-century Welsh Anglican priests Bishops of St Asaph Alumni of the University of Cambridge Clergy from Cheshire {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub