ended predecessor successor death_date birth_place religion title other_post nationality elected birth_date article_title diocese name church alma_mater
1647 -lrb- death -rrb- richard neile brian duppa 1647 hatfield , hertfordshire anglican bishop of winchester bishop and wells 1629 -- 1632 of rochester 1628 -- 1629 bishop of bath english 16 november 1632 1575 walter curle
 diocese of winchester walter curle church of england christ 's college , cambridge
walter curle

walter curle -lrb- or curll ; 1575 -- 1647 -rrb- was an english bishop , a close supporter of william laud .
born in hatfield , hertfordshire , he was educated at st albans school and at christ 's college , cambridge -lrb- matriculated c. 1592 -rrb- , transferring to peterhouse -lrb- ba c. 1595 ; ma in 1598 -rrb- , of which college he later was elected fellow .
he was bishop of winchester from 1632 to 1647 .
when in 1645 parliamentary forces under oliver cromwell captured winchester , he went into exile at soberton .
he was bishop of rochester in 1628 , and bishop of bath and wells from 1629 to 1632 .
his translation caused the vacancy as rector of bemerton that gave the poet george herbert a living there .
he was dean of lichfield 1622 to 1628 .
curll 's son walter curll was created a baronet in 1678 -lrb- see curll baronets -rrb- .
