Arthur Saul (canon)

Arthur Saul (died 1586) was an English Puritan cleric and academic, a Marian exile and canon of Gloucester Cathedral.

[1] Of Gloucestershire origin, Saul was admitted a demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1545.

[2] In October 1553 Saul was expelled from Magdalen at Bishop Stephen Gardiner's visitation.

Under Elizabeth I Saul was installed canon of Salisbury in 1559, of Bristol in 1559, and of Gloucester in 1565 (3 June); and was successively rector of Porlock, Somerset (1562), Ubly, Somerset (1565), Deynton, Gloucestershire (1566), and Berkeley, Gloucestershire (1575).

He subscribed the canons of 1562 as a member of Convocation, but displayed a strong Puritan leaning.