John Robinson (archdeacon of Bedford)

John Robinson (died 1598) was an English priest and academic in the second half of the 16th century.[1]

Robinson was born in Richmondshire and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2] He was President of St John's College, Oxford, from 1564 to 1572.[3] He held livings at East Treswell, Fulbeck, Thornton,[a] Great Easton, Brant Broughton, Fishtoft, Caistor, Kingston Bagpuze, Little Gransden (1587-97)[4] and Somersham. Robinson became Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral in 1573; and Archdeacon of Bedford in 1574, holding both positions until his death in 1598.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ The citations say Thornton, Yorkshire. There are several places called Thornton in Yorkshire, and it is unclear which this one was.

References

  1. ^ "Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum" p246: London; British Museum ; 1819
  2. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752โ€“1900 Vol. iii. Kaile โ€“ Ryves, (1924) p470
  3. ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Riader-Roissie
  4. ^ "Rectors of Little Gransden". Bluebell Benefice.
  5. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541โ€“1857, vol. 7, p. 14


 

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