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Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (July 1496 – 12 June 1567), was Lord Chancellor during King Edward VI of England's reign, from 1547 until January 1552. He was the founder of Felsted School with its associated almshouses in Essex in 1564.
Felsted was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (also known as Riche) who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired considerable wealth from the spoils of the Dissolution of the Monasteries including the nearby Leez Priory where he lived.
Felsted Grammar School: Felsted School: 1564 Independent Richard, Lord Rich, Lord Chancellor founded with "ample provision." The first three headmasters G. manning, M.Holbeach, and C.Glasscock made the school nationally famous. The chapel begun 1873 has been altered several times. The old premises were sold in 1894 and the prep school began.
Lord Rich was an important benefactor of the Felsted Church. The school also has links to Oliver Cromwell, who sent his sons there. The valley between Little Dunmow and Felsted was the location for the only sugar beet factory in Essex, which has been redeveloped for housing in a community called Flitch Green.
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Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich Leez Priory is a 16th- century mansion in Little Leighs , a small parish in the district of Chelmsford in the county of Essex , England . The civil parish boundary between Felsted and Great and Little Leighs crosses the priory, so that it partially lies in Felsted and partially in Great and Little Leighs .
Little Leighs priory in 1274 was licensed by the Bishop of London to appropriate the rectory from its rector and upon the dissolution of the monasteries, the government granted the rectory to Sir Richard Rich, later Lord Rich, who in 1555 settled it and the advowson on his new chantry at Felsted and in 1564 they became part of the initial ...
He was the eldest son of Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of William Jenks of London. [ 1 ] He married around 1555 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Baldrey (d. 1540) [ 2 ] and granddaughter of Sir Thomas Baldry, Lord Mayor of London in 1514. [ 3 ]