David Dolben

He was born at Segrwyd, near Denbigh, son of Robert Wynn Dolben.

In 1625 he became prebendary of Vaynol, or the golden prebend, in St Asaph Cathedral, a post he held until 1633, just before his death.

He was elected on 18 November and consecrated on 4 March 1632 by Archbishop George Abbot at Lambeth.

In the autumn of the same year he went down to a mortal sickness at the town house of his see in Shoe Lane, Holborn, where he died on 27 November.

He was buried in Hackney parish church, where his monument, containing a half-length statue and a eulogistic description of him, still remains.

Site of the London residence of the bishop of Bangor from 1378 to 1647, located in a close to the north-west of Shoe Lane. David Dolben was the last Welsh bishop who deigned to reside in a neighbourhood from which wealth and fashion was fast ebbing (The house was entirely pulled down in the autumn of 1828).