User talk:DavidShaw/SandboxWilliam Warham (Archdeacon)

William Warham (c. 1480?–1557) was Archdeacon of Canterbury from c. 1505 to 1532 during the archiepiscopate of his uncle William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury. His predecessor Hugh Peynthwyn died on 25 July 1504 but William did not officiate as archdeacon at his uncle's enthronement in 1505 and so was probably not appointed until after the entronement.

William Warham was probably educated, like his uncle, at Winchester College and New College, Oxford. He probably trained as a canon lawyer, in view of his duties as archdeacon and the books which survive from his library. As archdeacon, he was the archbishop's senior administrator, both in ecclesiastical matters and at the national political level where he took part in diplomatic missions for Kings Henry VII and Henry VIII. He accumulated many additional benefices and offices, including: