Henry Man

Henry Man (died 19 October 1556) was an English clergyman who served as the Bishop of Sodor and Man in the 16th century.

Henry Man
Bishop of Sodor and Man
Arms of Henry Man: Azure, a mascle fleur-de-lysé or, within and without five young men's heads couped argent crined or[1]
Diocese	Diocese of Sodor and Man
In office	1546–1555/6
Other posts	Prior of Witham (1534–35) Prior of Sheen (1535–39) Dean of Chester (1541–47)
Orders
Consecration	14 February 1546
Personal details
Died	19 October 1556
Buried	St Andrew Undershaft, London
Nationality	English
Denomination	Catholic / Anglican

Until the English Reformation he was a Carthusian monk who had been appointed the Prior of Witham, Somerset (1534–35)[2] and then the Prior of Sheen, Surrey (1535–39).[3] Following the dissolution of the monasteries, he was briefly a chaplain to King Henry VIII. He was appointed the Dean of Chester in 1541,[4][5] also holding the rectories of St Mary on the Hill, Chester and Fyningley, Nottinghamshire.[6]

He was nominated Bishop of Sodor and Man in January 1546 and consecrated at Old St Paul's Cathedral on 14 February 1546 by bishops Bonner, Chetham and Hodgkins.[7][8] He continued to hold the deanery of Chester in commendam for another year before resigning the post by 31 May 1547.[4][5] After the accession of Queen Mary I, he was deprived of the see and his predecessor Thomas Stanley was restored in 1555 or 1556.[9][10]

Henry died on 19 October 1556 and was buried at St Andrew Undershaft, London.[7][8][11] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).

References

1. Arms from Parker's Glossary
2. Page, William, ed. (1911). "The Priory of Witham". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2. British History Online. pp. 123–128.
3. Malden, H. E., ed. (1967). "The Priory of Witham". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 2. British History Online. pp. 89–94.
4. Horn, J. M.; Smith, D. M.; Mussett, P. (2004). "Deans of Chester". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 11: Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses. British History Online. pp. 42–45.
5. Elrington, C. R.; Harris, B. E.; Baggs, A. P.; Kettle, Ann J.; Lander, S. J.; Thacker, A. T.; Wardle, David, eds. (1980). "Chester Cathedral". A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3. British History Online. pp. 188–195.
6. Gairdner, James; Brodie, R. H., eds. (1908). Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 21 Part 1: January–August 1546. British History Online. pp. 53–78.
7. Horn, J. M.; Smith, D. M.; Mussett, P. (2004). "Bishops of Sodor and Man". Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 11: Carlisle, Chester, Durham, Manchester, Ripon, and Sodor and Man Dioceses. British History Online. pp. 141–146.
8. Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 273. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
9. Brady, W. Maziere (1876). The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875. Volume 1. Rome: Tipografia Della Pace. pp. 107–109.
10. Harrison, William (1879). "Bishops of Sodor and Man". An Account of the Diocese of Sodor and Man. Douglas, Isle of Man: Manx Society. pp. 53–70.
11. Nichols, J. G., ed. (1848). "Notes to the diary – 1556". The Diary of Henry Machyn: Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London (1550–1563). British History Online. p. 116.