Geoffrey Symeon

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Geoffrey Symeon (also Simeon and Symson) S.T.P. (d. 21 August 1508) was a Canon of Windsor from 1501-1508[1] and Dean of Chichester from 1504 - 1508.

Career

He was educated at New College, Oxford.

He was appointed:

  • Senior Proctor of New College, Oxford 1478 - 1479
  • Dean of the Chapel Royal
  • Prebendary of Somerley in Chichester Cathedral 1480
  • Prebendary of Holywell in St Paul’s Cathedral 1494
  • Rector of Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire
  • Dean of Chichester 1504
  • Dean of Lincoln 1506
  • Vicar of Colerne, Wiltshire

He was appointed to the third stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1501, a position he held until 1508.

He was buried in the Charterhouse, London.

Notes

  1. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle