Men of Kent and Kentishmen/William Rede
William Rede,
BISHOP OF CHICHESTER, 1369,
Was born at Marden, and educated at Oxford, where he became a Fellow of Merton College, which he furnished with a "fair library, and books and astronomical tables of his own making, which are still to be seen therein, with his lively picture inserted." He was preferred Bishop of Chichester by Edward III. He was an architect as well as a divine and mathematician, and built a castle at Amberley in Sussex. He died in 1386.
[See "Fuller's Worthies."]