Edmund Gonville founded Gonville Hall in 1348, which later was re-founded by John Caius

John Caius

John Caius , also known as Johannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.-Early years:...

 to become Gonville and Caius College. Gonville Hall was his third foundation. Before this he had founded two religious houses, a College at Rushworth, Norfolk, 1342 (suppressed in 1541) and the Hospital of St John at Lynn, Norfolk. The origin of his wealth is obscure.

Gonville held the following ecclesiatiacal appointments:

• rector of Thelnetham
  Thelnetham
  Thelnetham is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located on the southern bank of the River Little Ouse , six miles west of Diss, in 2005 its population was 230....
  
  , Suffolk
  Suffolk
  Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
  
   (1320–26)
• rector of Rushford, Norfolk
  Rushford, Norfolk
  Rushford is a small village in the English county of Norfolk. It is situated on the north bank of the River Little Ouse, east of the town of Thetford and south of the main A1066 road. The river forms the boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk and, until 1894, Rushford was in both counties...
  
   (1326–42),
• rector of Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk
  Norfolk
  Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
  
  (1342–51).

External links

• Edmund Gonville from the website of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge