John Fordham (bishop)

Fordham was keeper of the privy seal of Prince Richard from 1376 to 1377 and Dean of Wells before being named Lord Privy Seal in June 1377.

[1] Fordham was nominated to Durham on 9 September 1381 and consecrated on 5 January 1382.

[2] Fordham briefly served as Lord High Treasurer in 1386.

[3] In 1407 Fordham appointed Maurice Plank to be master of the Grammar Scholars in Wisbech.

The bishops of Ely were for many years the official Visitors to Wisbech Grammar School which claims to date to 1379.

John Fordham's personal arms are impaled with those of his bishopric