William de Tickhill

William de Tickhill (born c. 1290 – died after 1357) was an English priest, Crown official and judge who served very briefly as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

[1] He was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1331 but served in that office only for a few months:[1] he returned to England and was sitting on a Royal Commission there at the end of the same year.

[1] He went abroad on official business with Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham, in 1336.

He became vicar of Stanhope, County Durham and warden of Grantham Hospital.

[1] He spent his later years in York, and in 1357 he was given permission to found a guild in the city, with himself as one of the fraternity.

St. Mary's Church, Tickhill – William was born in Tickhill in the late thirteenth century