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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 240. Not illustrated. Chapters: Bishops of Ely, Burials at Ely Cathedral, John Morton, Lancelot Andrewes, Thomas Bourchier, Hugh de Balsham, Simon Langham, Nigel, William Longchamp, Bishop of Ely, Hervey le Breton, Thomas Arundel, William Grey, Richard Cox, Geoffrey Ridel, Francis Turner, John Alcock, John Kirkby, William Fleetwood, AEthelthryth, Francis White, John Salmon, Hugh of Northwold, Geoffrey de Burgo, James Stanley, Anthony Russell, Edmund Keene, James Russell Woodford, Edward Harold Browne, William of Louth, John of Fountains, William of Kilkenny, Joseph Allen, Peter Gunning, Matthew Wren, Matthias Mawson, John Moore, Wihtburh, Thomas Turton, Philip Morgan, Simon Patrick, Robert Butts, Nicholas Felton, Thomas Goodrich, Stephen Sykes, Ralph Walpole, Edward James Keymer Roberts, John Barnet, Noel Baring Hudson, Bernard Heywood, Lewis of Luxembourg, Thomas Green, Richard Redman, Peter Knight Walker, Edward Wynn, Martin Heton, Thomas Dampier, Nicholas West, John Buckeridge, Thomas Gooch, Lord Alwyne Compton, Benjamin Laney, Simon Montacute, John Hotham, Leonard Jauncey White-Thomson, Thomas Thirlby, Alfred Atheling, Robert of York, Frederic Henry Chase, George Basevi, Thomas de Lisle, James Yorke, John Ketton, Robert Orford, Bowyer Edward Sparke. Excerpt: Nigel (c. 1100 1169) (sometimes Nigel Poor or Nigel of Ely) was an Anglo-Norman bishop of Ely. He came from an ecclesiastical family; his uncle Roger of Salisbury was a bishop and government minister for King Henry I, and other relatives also held offices in the English Church and government. Nigel owed his advancement to his uncle, as did Nigel's probable brother Alexander, who like Nigel was advanced to episcopal status. Nigel was educated on the continent before becoming a royal administrator. He served as Treasurer of England under King Henry I of England, before being..
