Robert Snoden or Snowden (

Mansfield Mansfield is a market town and the administrative centre of Mansfield District in Nottinghamshire, England. It is the largest town in the wider Mansfield Urban Area (followed by Sutton-in-Ashfield). It gained the Royal Charter of a market t ...

, unknown date –

London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...

, 1621) was an English bishop.

Life

He was born in

Mansfield Woodhouse Mansfield Woodhouse is a settlement about north of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, England, along the main A60 road in a wide, low valley between the Rivers Maun and Meden.OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000): Founded before the Rom ...

, the third son of Ralph Snoden. In May 1580 he matriculated as a

sizar At Trinity College, Dublin and the University of Cambridge, a sizar is an undergraduate who receives some form of assistance such as meals, lower fees or lodging during his or her period of study, in some cases in return for doing a defined j ...

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

, where he graduated B.A. in 1583, M.A. in 1586, B.D 1593. He became a Fellow of Christ's in 1589, rector of

Harby, Leicestershire Harby is an English village and a former civil parish, now in the parish of Clawson, Hose and Harby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire. It lies in the Vale of Belvoir, 9.4 miles (15.1 km) north of Melton Mowbray and ...

, in 1596 and of

Hickling, Nottinghamshire Hickling is a village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. It is located close to the border with Leicestershire, approximately northwest of Melton Mowbray; the Vale of Belvoir is also nearby. It has a population of around 5 ...

in 1598.John Peile, ''Biographical register of Christ's College 1505-1905 and of the earlier foundation, God's House 1448-1505'' (1913), p. 159. The same year, he received the degree of

Doctor of Divinity A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...

. Snoden became a chaplain to

James I James I may refer to: People *James I of Aragon (1208–1276) * James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327) * James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu * James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347) *James I of Cyprus (1334� ...

in 1614, and was appointed as

Bishop of Carlisle The Bishop of Carlisle is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Carlisle in the Province of York. The diocese covers the county of Cumbria except for Alston Moor and the former Sedbergh Rural District. The see is in the city o ...

in 1616. This was attributed to the influence of George Villiers. Snoden found his diocese poverty-stricken rather than troublesome, as he wrote to the king. He died in London.Peter Linehan St John's College, Cambridge: A History - 2011 - Page 132 "Robert Snowden, bishop of Carlisle, an undergraduate at Christ's during the 1580s, recommended his eldest son to Owen Gwyn, not only for his 'ingenious and studious aptnes to any part of book-learning' but also for his 'skill in vocall and ..."

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Snoden, Robert 16th-century births 1621 deaths Bishops of Carlisle Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Doctors of Divinity Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Honorary Chaplains to the Queen 17th-century Church of England bishops People from Mansfield Woodhouse