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{{short description|British bishop}}
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[[File:Worcester Cathedral 20190211 130535 (33747283048).jpg|thumb|Monument in [[Worcester Cathedral]] to Nicholas Bullingham, Bishop of Worcester. Arms: Bullingham (''Azure, an eagle displayed argent in his beak a branch of beech or on a chief of the last a rose between two crosses bottonny gules''<ref>A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN HERALDRY by JAMES PARKER
FIRST PUBLISHED in 1894 [https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/Jpglossb.htm]</ref>) impaling See of Worcester. The arms of the See normally appears at [[Dexter and sinister|dexter]] (position of greatest honour), not as here at sinister]]
'''Nicholas Bullingham''' (or '''Bollingham''') (c. 1520–1576) was an English cleric who became the [[Bishop of Lincoln]] and [[Bishop of Worcester]].<ref name=A>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Bullingham, Nicholas}}</ref>

==Life==

Nicholas Bullingham was born in [[Worcester, England|Worcester]] around 1520. He was sent to the [[Royal Grammar School Worcester]]. In 1536 he became a Fellow of [[All Souls College, Oxford]], graduating [[Bachelor of Civil Law|BCL]] in 1541, [[Doctor of Civil Law|DCL]] in 1546<ref name="alum-oxon">{{cite book|editor-last=Foster|editor-first=Joseph|year=1891|title=Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714|section=Bullingham, Nicholas|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp201-227|access-date=13 December 2020}}</ref> (or he supplicated for DCL but was not admitted<ref name=A/>). He was created [[Doctor of Laws|LL.D.]] at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] in 1559<ref>{{acad|id=BLNN559N|name=Bullingham, Nicholas}}</ref> ([[Ad eundem degree|incorporated]] DCL at Oxford in 1566<ref name="alum-oxon"/>).

After his education in law, Bullingham entered the church, becoming [[Archdeacon of Lincoln]] in 1549. On the accession of [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary]], Bullingham, being married and Protestant, was deprived of the archdeaconry and his other church positions, and went into exile at [[Emden]].

On the accession of [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth]], Bullingham returned to England, resumed his church positions, and became a private chaplain to [[Matthew Parker|Archbishop Parker]], who often consulted him on legal matters. He became [[Bishop of Lincoln]] in 1560,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fixe |first=John |year=1583 |title=Foxe's book of Martyrs |page=2128}}  Foxe mentions Bullingham's installation after Elizabeth's accession.</ref> and finally returned to his old city as Bishop of Worcester until his death in 1576. While in Worcester, he greeted the Queen on her visit to the city in 1575.<ref name=A/>

Bullingham is buried in [[Worcester Cathedral]] in an unusual tomb, with an inscribed tablet on his stomach.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sherlock |first=Dr. Peter |year=2004 |journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History |issue=4 |pages=654–680 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/S0022046904001502 |title=Episcopal Tombs in Early Modern England |volume=55|s2cid=162117440 }}</ref>

==Marriages and issue==
Bullingham married firstly Margaret Sutton (d.1566), daughter of Hamond Sutton of [[Washingborough]], [[Lincolnshire]], by whom he had two sons, [[Francis Bullingham]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MP}} (1553–c.1636) and Nicholas Bullingham (1566–1639), and two daughters, both named Susan, who died in 1561 and 1564 respectively.{{sfn|Lock|2004}}

He married secondly, about 1569, Elizabeth Lok (1535–c.1581). She was the widow of the London mercer and alderman Richard Hill (d.1568), by whom she had had thirteen children, and was the daughter of [[William Lok|Sir William Lok]] and his first wife, Alice Spenser (d.1522). By his second wife Bullingham had a son, John (baptized 1570).{{sfn|Sutton|2005|p=391}}{{sfn|McDermott|2004}}{{sfn|Lock|2004}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*{{Cite ODNB |last=Lock |first=Julian |year=2004 |title=Bullingham, Nicholas (1511?–1576) |id=3917}} 
*{{Cite ODNB |last=McDermott |first=James |year=2004 |title=Lok, Sir William (1480–1550) |id=16951}} {{DNBfirst|wstitle=Lok, William}}
*{{Cite book |last=Sutton |first=Anne F. |year=2005 |title=The Mercery of London: Trade, Goods and People, 1130-1578 |location=Aldershot, Hampshire |publisher=Ashgate Publishing Limited |isbn=9780754653318 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iqfOAhjwJwcC&pg=PA391 |access-date=19 November 2013 }}

==External links==
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D957766 Will of Richard Hill, Mercer of London, proved 13 November 1568, PROB 11/50/351, National Archives] Retrieved 19 November 2013

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{{Succession box| title=[[Bishop of Lincoln]] | before=[[Thomas Watson (bishop of Lincoln)|Thomas Watson]] | after=[[Thomas Cooper (bishop)|Thomas Cooper]] | years= 1560–1571 }}
{{Succession box| title=[[Bishop of Worcester]] | before=[[Edwin Sandys, Archbishop of York|Edwin Sandys]] | after=[[John Whitgift]] | years= 1571–1576 }}
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