HERVEY DE STANTON

'Hervey de Stanton' (born 1270s, d. November 1327 Yorkshire) was a Chancellor of the Exchequer of England to King Edward II.
He was appointed Chancellor in 1316, and Chief Justice of the Pleas in 1323. In 1324, he founded Michaelhouse, a college at the University of Cambridge, one of the predecessors to Trinity College, Cambridge. Following Edward's downfall in early 1327, he fled to Yorkshire and stayed at a benefice - where he died that November. He was buried in the Chancel of St Michael's Church, Cambridge, nearby Trinity College, where a memorial chapel dedicated to him survives.

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