Richard Surland Explained

Richard Surland (also Surlond) (died 20 August 1509) was a canon of Windsor from 1488 to 1509^[1]

Career

He was appointed:

• Rector of St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London from 1486 to 1509
• Master of St Anthony's Hospital^[2]
• Sub dean of the Chapel Royal
• Prebendary of Ruscomb in Salisbury Cathedral 1503

He was appointed to the ninth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1488, a position he held until 1509.

A memorial brass was installed in St George's Chapel, Windsor in his memory, and sketched around 1610 by Nicholas Charles, but is now lost.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
2. A History of the County of London: Volume 1: London within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark. William Page. 1909
3. St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in the Fourteenth Century. Nigel Saul. Boydell Press. 2005.