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British bishop (1542 – 1596) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Bellot (1542 – 1596) was an English prelate during the Tudor period, who served as bishop of Bangor and then bishop of Chester.
Dr Bellot assisted William Morgan in his Welsh-language translation of the Bible.
Bellot graduated B.A. from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1564, proceeding M.A. before election as a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in 1567,[2] later receiving the degree of D.D.
The third of ten sons of Thomas Bellot, lord of the manor of Moreton Magna, Cheshire by his wife Alice Roydon, a Welsh-speaker from Denbighshire, reputedly he was a misogynist.[3]
A younger brother, Cuthbert Bellot, became Archdeacon of Chester, whilst he also helped secure an advantageous marriage for his nephew, Edward Bellot with Amy Grosvenor, whose grandson was created a baronet.[4]
Bellot was consecrated as bishop of Bangor in 1585,[5] and was translated in 1595 to the see of Chester.[6] He died at Whitsuntide the following year at the Bishop's Palace, Chester being buried at Bersham, Denbighshire (now Clwyd).[7]
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