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Christopher Urswick (d. 1522) was a priest and confessor of Margaret Beaufort. Lady Margaret Beaufort ( May 31, 1443 &ndash June 29, 1509) of the House of Lancaster was the mother of King Henry VII of He was Rector of Puttenham, Hampshire, and later Dean of Windsor. Wildlife Hampshire has wildlife typical of the island of Great Britain The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the Canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Urswick is thought to have acted as a go-between in the plotting to place her son Henry VII of England on the throne.

Amongst his more important positions, Urswick was Rector of the Parish of Hackney, where he ordered rebuilt the medieval parish church in the early 16th century of which St Augustine's Tower is the only remnant. Hackney was a Parish in the ancient county of Middlesex. The parish church of St John-at-Hackney, was built in 1789 replacing the nearby former 16th century St Augustine's Tower stands in St Johns' Church Gardens in Hackney Central, in the London Borough of Hackney, just off the southern end of the Narrow Way (formerly He also built a new parish house (Urswick House, now demolished), where he lived for a time; and remains commemorated in Urswick Road in nearby Homerton. Homerton is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. It is bordered to the west by Hackney Central, to the north by Lower Clapton, in the east

He appears as a minor character in Shakespeare's Richard III. William Shakespeare ( baptised Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591



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