Richard Ullerston

Richard Ullerston DD was a Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of Oxford University.
Ullerston was born in the Duchy of Lancaster, England. Having been ordained priest in December, 1383, he became a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, holding office in the college, and proceeding to Doctor of Divinity and List of [Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford|Vice-Chancellor] of Oxford University in 1394. In 1408, he became Chancellor of the University and in the same year wrote at the request of Robert Hallum, Bishop of Salisbury, a sketch of proposed ecclesiastical reforms: Petitiones quoad reformationis ecclesiae militantis, which is available online.
Ullerston wrote a commentary on the Creed, one on the Psalms, another on the Canticle of Canticles, and Defensorium donationis ecclesiasticae, a work in defence of the donation of Constantine. At the request of Richard Courtenay he wrote a treatise, De officio militari, addressed to Henry, Prince of Wales.
From 1403, Ullerston held the prebend of Oxford in Salisbury Cathedral, and from 1407 the rectory of Beeford in Yorkshire.