Anthony Kitchin
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Anthony Kitchin (also known as Anthony Dunstone) was a mid-16th century Abbot of Eynsham Abbey and Bishop of Llandaff.
Kitchin was a monk at Westminster Abbey, before becoming Prior of Gloucester Hall, Oxford. He was appointed Abbot of Eynsham in 1530, but lost the post at his abbey's dissolution in 1539. He was granted an unusually large pension of £133-6s-8d pa. six years later, Kitchin was made Bishop of Llandaff. He is said to have impoverished the diocese by selling off much of its property. He, however, acquired notoriety for retaining his see under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth. Alone of all the English bishops, he took the oath of Royal supremacy on the accession of the latter. Kitchin died at the Bishop's palace in Mathern on 31 October 1566.
