Edward More (churchman)

Edward More (1480–1541) was an English churchman and educator, Archdeacon of Lewes from 1527 to 1541.

He was at a later date appointed canon of Chichester Cathedral, was instituted vicar of Isleworth on 3 March 1514–15, and on resigning that living in August 1521, became rector of Cranford.

[2] On 29 October 1526, More was admitted the eighth warden of Winchester College, and held that office, together with the rectory of Cranford, till his death.

In the Latin poem descriptive of the wardens of Winchester (in Richard Willes's Poemata, 1573), Christopher Johnson wrote:[2] (Translation: "He who reads More here, and has not felt him, let him rejoice, and think himself well off".)

As a pedagogue, he carried on the traditions of William Horman; in religion, he passed the baton to another conservative Catholic, John White, who followed him as headmaster and as warden.