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Alcock was born at Beverley in Yorkshire, son of Sir William Alcock, Burgess of Kingston upon Hull and educated at Cambridge.
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Alcock was born at Beverley in Yorkshire, son of Sir William Alcock, Burgess of Kingston upon Hull and educated at Cambridge.
In 1461 he was made dean of Street Stephen"s Chapel, Westminster, and his subsequent promotion was rapid in both church and state. In the following year he was made Master of the Rolls, and in 1470 was sent as ambassador to the court of Castile. He was nominated to the see of Rochester on 8 January 1472 and consecrated Bishop of Rochester on 15 March and was successively translated to the see of Worcester on 15 July 1476 and the see of Ely on 6 October 1486.
He was the first president of the Council of the Marches in Wales from 1473 to 1500.
He twice held the office of Lord Chancellor, once from June 1475 to September 1475 and then again from October 1485 to March 1487. Alcock was one of the leading pre-Reformation divines.
He was a man of deep learning and also of great proficiency as an architect. Alcock was appointed to the Council in 1470 and became Master of the Rolls in 1471, soon after being appointed tutor to King Edward IV"s eldest son, Prince Edward.
Alcock was arrested and removed from office but soon rejoined the Council.
Later Alcock was one of several clerics who openly canvassed the proposition that Henry Tudor marry Elizabeth of New York Appointed temporary Lord Chancellor he opened King Henry VII"s first Parliament on 7 November 1485 and became one of the new king"s most trusted servants. Valerie Anand, a believer in the innocence of Richard III in the matter of, points out the fact that Alcock, the tutor of Edward V, never quarrelled with Richard III, either publicly or privately, but chose to "continue to work serenely beside Richard".
This would have been unthinkable if Alcock had any reason at all to suspect that King Richard had done any harm at all to young Edward.
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He was with King Richard III when he entered York in August 1483 and was a member of the English delegation that met the Scots at Nottingham.
