William Atwater (1440–1521) was an English churchman, who became Bishop of Lincoln in 1514.
He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1480. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, in the period from 1497 to 1503.
Atwater became vicar of Cumnor in 1495. He became Dean of the Chapel Royal, in 1502.CDNB In 1504, he was appointed Canon of the eleventh stall at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, a position he held until 1514.Fasti Wyndesorienses, May 1950. S.L. Ollard. Published by the Dean and Canons of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He was chancellor of Lincoln from 1506 to 1512.
References
Bibliography Concise Dictionary of National Biography Margaret Bowker (1968), The Secular Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1495 to 1520 A. Hamilton Thompson (editor) (1940), Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517–1531. Vol I. Visitations of Rural Deaneries by William Atwater…1517–1520. (Publications of the Lincoln Record Society, Vol. 33.)