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John Renham

academic administrator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ16203543 ↗
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John Renham (or Reigham) was an English medieval university chancellor.

Renham was chancellor of the University of Oxford between 1358 and 1359. He may also have served as chancellor of the university in 1363.

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“John Renham” enters the record as academic administrator. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what John, Renham and academic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1358, 1359, 1363—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around John, Renham and academic.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16203543. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1358, 1359 and 1363.

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This entry incorporates text from “John Renham” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.