Edward Story
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Edward Story (or Storey; died 1503) was an English priest, Bishop of Carlisle, 1468–1477, and Bishop of Chichester, 1477–1503.
Story was educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he was elected a fellow about 1444.<ref>Template:Acad</ref> In 1450, he was appointed Master of Michaelhouse, Cambridge, a post he held together with his later preferments until 1477. Advanced to the see of Carlisle by papal provision on 18 July 1468,<ref name=Handbook236/> he was consecrated a bishop on 2 October 1468.<ref name=Handbook236>Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 236</ref> He was translated to Chichester on 11 February 1478.<ref name=Handbook239>Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 239</ref> He served as chaplain to Elizabeth Woodville and as Chancellor of Cambridge University. He founded the Prebendal School in Chichester, and he is reputed to have had the Chichester Cross erected.
Story died on 16 March 1503.<ref name=Handbook239/> His death is recorded in the Lewkenor Hours (Lambeth Palace Library MS 545), the book of hours once owned by the wealthy Lewkenor family of Tratton and Tangmere (Sussex).
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- 15th-century births
- 1503 deaths
- Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
- Bishops of Carlisle
- Bishops of Chichester
- Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- 15th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
- 16th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
- Year of birth unknown
- Elizabeth Woodville