biography
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| lived:
| (c.1485–1555)
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| biography:
| Protestant martyr, born in Thurcaston, Leicestershire, C England, UK. In 1510 he was elected a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and in 1522 was appointed a university preacher, soon becoming noted for his reformed doctrines. He was made rector of West Kington in Wiltshire, and in 1535 was consecrated as Bishop of Worcester. Twice during Henry VIII's reign he was sent to the Tower, in 1532 and 1546, and under Mary I he was examined at Oxford (1554) and committed to jail. The next year he was found guilty of heresy, and was burned with Ridley opposite Balliol College. |
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