Roger Leyburn

Roger Leyburn (died 1508) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, archdeacon of Durham and bishop of Carlisle.

Leyburn was born near Carlisle, and was a graduate of the University of Cambridge, proceeding B.A.

[2] In 1504 he with Richard Foxe received a papal commission to draw up new statutes for Balliol College, Oxford;[3] Foxe seems to have had sole responsibility for the outcome, however.

[4] He also held the secular post of Chancellor of Durham.

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