Hugh Saunders (academic)

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Hugh Saunders DD (died 1537), otherwise Hugh Shakespeeres or Breakspeare, was an English clergyman and academic, Principal of St Alban Hall, Oxford, 1501–1503, and Vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1501 and 1502.

A pluralist, Saunders was vicar of Deptford St Nicholas in 1502–1503, and of Hoo St Werburgh in 1503, and he resigned from Meopham in 1504. In 1509 he became a canon of St Paul's, in 1513 Rector of St Mary's, Whitechapel, and in 1516 of Gestingthorpe, Essex, as well as Rector of Mixbury; his will was proved on 26 February 1538."Saunders, Hugh, D.D. (alias Shakespeeres or Breakspeare)" in Alumni Oxonienses (Oxford: Parker & Co, undated, c. 1892), [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp1297-1322 Sabery-Saywell, pp. 1297-1322], referencing Newcourt; Foster's Index Eccl.; & Lansdowne MSS. 979, f. 62, and 980, f. 199. [30]