Arthur Saul (died 1586) was an English

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cleric and academic, a

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and canon of Gloucester Cathedral.

Life

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origin, Saul was admitted a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1545. He graduated B.A. in 1546, and M.A. 1549. He was fellow of Magdalen probably from 1546 to 1553. In October 1553 Saul was expelled from Magdalen at Bishop

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's visitation. Under Mary I of England he was an exile, and in 1554 was at Strasbourg with

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and others. Under

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Saul was installed canon of Salisbury in 1559, of Bristol in 1559, and of Gloucester in 1565 (3 June); and was successively rector of

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, Somerset (1562), Ubly, Somerset (1565), Deynton, Gloucestershire (1566), and Berkeley, Gloucestershire (1575). He subscribed the canons of 1562 as a member of Convocation, but displayed a strong Puritan leaning. In 1565 he was appointed by Thomas Bentham,

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, to visit his diocese, and by

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in 1576 to visit the

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. Saul died in 1586. The Jacobean chess-writer Arthur Saul was not his son, as has sometimes been claimed.

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Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Saul, Arthur Year of birth missing 1586 deaths 16th-century English Puritan ministers Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford People from Gloucestershire Marian exiles