Robert Pursglove

By a maternal uncle, William Bradshawe, he was sent to St Paul's School, London, where he spent nine years.

He became an Augustinian canon regular, after a short spell at St Mary Overy in London, then a priory, he went on to Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

[3] His tenure of the bishopric of Hull continued under Robert Holgate and Nicholas Heath; but he was deprived of the office, as well as of his archdeaconry, in 1559 for refusing to take the oath of supremacy.

In 1559, the year of his deprivation, he obtained letters patent from Elizabeth I to found a grammar school at Tideswell on condition that he refrained from preaching or hindering the Queen's Majesty's laws concerning religion but the local vicar became a recusant priest.

On 5 June 1563, he also obtained letters patent to found a similar school, bearing the same name, and also a hospital, or almshouse, at Guisborough in North Yorkshire.