Editing William Whittlesey (section)

==Life==

Whittlesey was probably born in the [[Cambridgeshire]] village of [[Whittlesey, England]].

Whittlesey was educated at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]], and owing principally to the fact that he was a nephew of [[Simon Islip]], archbishop of Canterbury, he received numerous ecclesiastical preferments; he held [[prebend]]s at [[Lichfield]], [[Chichester]] and [[Lincoln, England|Lincoln]], and livings at Ivychurch, [[Croydon]] and Cliffe.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Whittlesey was briefly appointed Master of Peterhouse on 10 September 1349 and resigned from that post in 1351.{{sfn|Roach|1959}} Later he was appointed vicar-general, and then [[dean of the court of arches]] by Islip.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} On 23 October 1360 he became Bishop of Rochester and was consecrated on 6 February 1362.{{sfn|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1996|p=267}} Two years after his consecration he was transferred to the bishopric of Worcester on 6 March 1364.{{sfn|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1996|p=279}} On 11 October 1368 Whittlesey was transferred to the archbishopric of Canterbury in succession to [[Simon Langham]], but his term of office was very uneventful, a circumstance due partly, but not wholly, to his feeble health.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He died at [[Lambeth]] on the 5th or 6 June 1374.{{sfn|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1996|p=233}}