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Richard Roche

Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge (fl. 1470s)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ47034809 ↗
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Richard Roche was Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge from 1475 until 1480.

Roche was born in Taunton and educated at Eton College. After graduating MA he was ordained in 1457. He became a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1469; and Rector of Little Shelford in 1473.

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This entry incorporates text from “Richard Roche” 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.