Henry Wells was an English academic in the late 14th and early 15th centuries.
Wells was born in
Upwell
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Upwell is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. Upwell village is on the A1101 road, as is Outwell, its conjoined village at the north. The nearest towns are Wisbech to the north-west and Downham Market to the ...
. He was
Rector
Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to:
Style or title
*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
*Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...
of
Grimston, Norfolk
Grimston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, approximately 6 miles north-east of King's Lynn.
It covers an area of and had a population of 1,952 in 823 households at the 2001 census, increasing to a population of 1,9 ...
from 1399 to 1406; and
Archdeacon of Lincoln from 1405 to 1431. Wells was
Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 1413 until 1429.
["Full text of "Trinity hall; or, The college of scholars of the Holy Trinity of Norwich, in the University of Cambridge" Malden, H.E. p66: London: F.E. Robinson; 1902]
References
Archdeacons of Lincoln
1429 deaths
Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
People from Upwell
15th-century English Roman Catholic priests
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