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Robert Braybrooke (died August 28, 1404) was a medieval Bishop of London in the reign of Richard II. He was consecrated on January 5, 1382 and named Lord Chancellor of England a few months later, although this was only a temporary posting. He later accompanied the king to Ireland in 1394 and was Lord Chancellor of Ireland for six months in 1397. He was buried in the old St Paul’s Cathedral. His tomb was smashed during the Great Fire of London in 1666, and his body was found inside intact and mummified. This is one of a small number of Edwardian streets built between 1911 and 1913 that are named after bishops of London, who were lords of the manor of Fulham. Their former summer house, Fulham Palace, is a few miles away and Wormholt, as the area was referred to, was considered the waste ground of the manor and used for “depasturing cattle and swine of copyhold tenants”.
