Richard Senhouse (died 1626) was an

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churchman, Bishop of Carlisle from 1624 to 1626.

Life

He was third son of John Senhouse (d. 1604) of Netherhall, Cumberland (now part of

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), by Anne, daughter of John Ponsonby of Hail Hall and the great-great-nephew of

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, bishop of Carlisle and Durham. His father was an antiquary who collected Roman remains, and Sir Robert Bruce Cotton visited him in 1599. Richard was educated, first at

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and then at

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, where he graduated M.A. in 1598 (incorporated at Oxford in 1600), and proceeded B.D. by grace of 15 February 1608, D.D. in 1622. He became fellow of St. John's on 7 April 1598. He was known as a preacher, and became chaplain successively to

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, Prince Charles, and King James I. In 1606 he was appointed vicar of Bumpsted Steeple, Essex; in 1608 he was rector of

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, Surrey, and on 18 December 1621 he became

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. He was made bishop of Carlisle on 26 September 1624, and preached the coronation sermon for Charles I on 2 February 1626. He died three months later after a fall from his horse, on 6 May 1626, and was buried in

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. A volume containing four sermons by him was published in

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in 1627.

References

Attribution

Year of birth unknown 1626 deaths Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Bishops of Carlisle Deans of Gloucester 17th-century Church of England bishops {{UK-bishop-stub