Robert Dorset

Robert Dorset was a Sixteenth-century English priest.^[1]

Dorset was educated at Christ Church, Oxford.^[2] He was appointed Rector of Winwick in 1572, and of Ewelme in 1574. He was Dean of Chester from 1579 until his death on 29 May 1580.^[3]

Notes

^ "History of the city of Chester, from its foundation to the present time : with an account of its antiquities, curiosities, local customs, and peculiar immunities ; and a concise political history" Hemingway, J Chester' J. Fletcher; 1831 p317
^ Disbrowe-Dyve pp 406-439 Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714
^ British History on-line

Deans of Chester
Early modern	Thomas Clerk Henry Man William Cliffe Richard Walker John Piers Richard Langworth Robert Dorset Thomas Modesley John Nutter William Barlow Henry Parry Thomas Mallory William Nichols Henry Bridgeman James Arderne Laurence Fogg Walter Offley Thomas Allen Thomas Brooke William Smith George Cotton
Late modern	Hugh Cholmondeley Robert Hodgson Peter Vaughan Edward Copleston Henry Phillpotts George Davys Frederick Anson John Howson John Darby Frank Bennett Norman Tubbs Michael Gibbs George Addleshaw Ingram Cleasby Stephen Smalley Gordon McPhate Tim Stratford