Editing Wisbech (section)

==== Church and religion ====
*[[John Alcock (bishop)|John Alcock]] (c1430-1500), bishop appointed to the [[see of Ely]] in 1486 he died in the bishops palace in Wisbech and is buried in [[Ely Cathedral]]
*[[John Feckenham]] (c1515-1584), Abbott of Westminster, imprisoned in The Bishop's palace from 1580 until his death in 1584. At his own cost he arranged the repairs of the road and erected a market cross in the town.
*[[Theophilus Buckworth]], [[Bishop of Dromore]], born and died in Wisbech<ref>"An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, in the Isle of Ely" Watson,W. p452: Cambridgeshire H. and J. Leach, 1827</ref> a [[Fellow]] of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], was an Irish [[Anglican]] priest:<ref name="HBOBC">{{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=3rd |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1986 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |pages=348–350}}</ref>
*[[Thomas Herring]] (1693–1757), [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (from 1747), was educated at [[Wisbech Grammar School]].
*Rev. [[William Hazlitt (Unitarian minister)|William Hazlitt]] (1737–1820), minister at the Presbyterian meeting house here in 1764–66, became an influential [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] minister. He was father of the essayist [[William Hazlitt]] and the portrait painter [[John Hazlitt]]. While resident at Wisbech he married Grace Loftus.