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Warham, William c.1450-1532
English lawyer and prelate

Born near Basingstoke, Hampshire, he took orders, but practised law, and became an advocate in the Court of Arches. His diplomatic services to Henry VII obtained him rapid preferment - Master of the Rolls (1494), Lord Chancellor (1501), Bishop of London (1503) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1503). In 1515 he had to resign the great seal to Thomas Wolsey. He was a sympathizer of the New Learning and its proponents, but did not desire fundamental reform, though he reluctantly agreed to recognize the king's supremacy.