Thomas Langton
Thomas Langton was
Bishop of Winchester and chaplain to
Edward IV. In
1483 he was chosen bishop of St Davids; in
1485 he was made bishop of
Salisbury and provost of
Queen's College, Oxford, and he became bishop of
Winchester in
1493. In
1501 he was elected
archbishop of Canterbury, but he died on
January 27 1501 before his election had been confirmed.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.