Hugh Bellot

For the professor of American history, see Hugh Hale Bellot.

Hugh Bellot (1542 – 1596) was an English prelate during the Tudor period, who served as bishop of Bangor and then bishop of Chester.

Arms: Or on a chief Gules three cinquefoils of the first.^[1]

Dr Bellot assisted William Morgan in his Welsh-language translation of the Bible.

Life

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]

See also

• Bellot baronets
• Welsh Bible