Rowland Searchfield (Roland) (c. 1565 – 11 October 1622) was an English academic and

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Life

He was born in 1564 or 1565, and entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1575. He matriculated as fellow at St John's College, Oxford, on 6 July 1582, aged 17. He graduated

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on 11 October 1586, M.A. on 2 June 1590, and B.D. in June 1597; he was dispensed from the usual exercises on the grounds of duties at the command of the archbishop of Canterbury. He graduated D.D. on 1 June 1608. He was appointed

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of the university on 21 April 1596, and was licensed to preach on 17 February 1606. In 1601 he was made vicar of

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, and rector of Burthrop,

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, and in 1606 he became vicar of

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, Oxfordshire, succeeding his father-in-law

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. On 18 March 1619 he was elected bishop of Bristol, being consecrated on 9 May following, and receiving back the temporalities on the 28th. He died on 11 October 1622 and was buried in

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.record of epitaph
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described him as 'a dissembled Christian'. By his wife Anne, daughter of Ralph and Mary Hutchinson, he had one or more sons.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Searchfield, Rowland 1565 births 1622 deaths Bishops of Bristol Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Oxford 17th-century Church of England bishops