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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cherbury, David

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1357279Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 10 — Cherbury, David1887Reginald Lane-Poole

CHERBURY or CHIRBURY, DAVID (fl. 1430), bishop of Dromore, was a Carmelite friar, possibly a member of the Oxford house of his order, since he is recorded to have built its library (Tanner, Bibl. Brit. p. 178). He was made bishop of Dromore, probably in 1427, but he must have resigned that see before 1 June 1431, when it is mentioned as vacant. He appears afterwards to have been employed in performing episcopal duties on behalf of Thomas Rodburn, bishop of St. David’s. The date of Cherbury's death is unknown. He was buried in the Carmelite monastery at Ludlow. Leland, in his ‘Commentarii,’ speaks of him as an eminent theologian; but his list of the books found in the Carmelite library at Oxford (Collectanea, iii. 59) contains no works by him, nor have even the titles of any such been preserved.

[Leland's Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis. clxxxiv. p. 473; Sir James Ware, De Præsulibus Hiberniæ, p. 92 (Dublin. 1655, folio); Cotton’s Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ, iii. 278 (1849).]