Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Hamo of Hythe
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Hamo of Hythe,
BISHOP.
"Hamo of Hithe was born therein" says Fuller. He was made Bishop of Rochester in the 12th year of Henry II., to whom he was Confessor. He erected the Great Hall at Hailing, and built and endowed the hospital of St. Bartholomew at Hythe, whence Fuller thinks he must have been a person of private means, the See of Rochester being poor. He resigned his bishopric before his death, which took place in 1355 at Hardwicke.
[See "Fuller's Worthies."]