John Robinson (Archdeacon of Bedford)

John Robinson, D.D. was an English priest and academic in the second half of the 17th 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,[lower-alpha 1] Great Easton, Brant Broughton, Fishtoft, Caistor, Kingston Bagpuze, Gransden[lower-alpha 2] and Somersham. Robinson became Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral in 1573; and Archdeacon of Bedford in 1574, holding both positions until his death in 1598.[4]

Notes
  1. The citations say Thornton, Yorkshire. There are several places called Thornton in Yorkshire, and it is unclear which this one was.
  2. The citations say Gransden, Cambridgeshire. This could be either of the neighbouring villages Great Gransden and Little Gransden.

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. 1752–1900 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p470
  3. Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Riader-Roissie
  4. Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 7, p. 14


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