The Most Rev. Edmund Rich
(1175-1240)
St Edmund of Abingdon, first Master and Theologian of the University to become Archbishop of Canterbury, and Archbishop of Canterbury
Died aged c. 65
Commemorated on 1 plaque
St Edmund of Abingdon The first Master and Theologian of the University to become Archbishop of Canterbury taught in and around this Church of St Peter-in-the-East during the years 1195–1201 and 1214–1222. This statue by Rodney Munday was presented by the St Edmund Hall Association in 2007 on the fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Charter being granted to the College.
former Church of St Peter-in-the-East, Queen’s Lane, Oxford, United Kingdom where they taught -2012)