biography
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| lived:
| (c.1530–1604)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman, born in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, EC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, was ordained in 1560, and rose to be Dean of Lincoln (1571), Bishop of Worcester (1577), Archbishop of Canterbury (1583), and a privy councillor (1586). He attended Elizabeth I in her last moments, and crowned James I. He was a champion of conformity, and vindicated the Anglican position against the Puritans. |
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