John Droxford

John Droxford
Bishop of Bath and Wells
Effigy of John Droxford in Wells Cathedral
Church	Catholic
Elected	5 February 1309
Term ended	9 May 1329
Predecessor	Walter Haselshaw
Successor	Ralph of Shrewsbury
Orders
Consecration	9 November 1309
Personal details
Died	9 May 1329
Buried	Wells Cathedral

John Droxford (sometimes John Drokensford; died 9 May 1329), was a Bishop of Bath and Wells. He was elected 5 February 1309 and consecrated 9 November 1309.

Droxford, born probably at Drokensford, now Droxford, Hampshire, was Controller of the Wardrobe to King Edward I in 1291, and continued to hold that office until 1295, when he appears as keeper of the wardrobe (1295–1309). These offices kept him in constant attendance at court. He accompanied Edward in the expeditions he made to Scotland in 1291 and 1296. In 1297 he discharged the duties of Treasurer during a vacancy. The next year he was again busy in Scotland, and he appears to have again accompanied Edward I on the expedition of 1303–4. His services were rewarded with ecclesiastical preferments; he was rector of Droxford, of Hemingburgh and Stillingfleet in Yorkshire, and of Balsham in Cambridgeshire; he held prebends in Southwell and four other collegiate churches in England, besides certain prebends in Ireland; was installed as prebendary in the cathedral churches of Lichfield, Lincoln, and Wells; and was chaplain to the pope. His secular emoluments were also large, for he appears to have had five residences in Surrey, Hampshire, and Kent, besides a sixth estate in Chute Forest, Wiltshire, and a grant of land in Windsor Forest. He is sometimes incorrectly styled Chancellor, or Keeper of the Great Seal, simply because on one occasion, as keeper of the wardrobe, he had charge of the great seal for a few days during a vacancy.