biography
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| (1544–1610)
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| biography:
| Anglican clergyman, born in Farnworth, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He graduated from Cambridge in 1567, and after a series of preferments was consecrated Bishop of London in 1597. He attended Queen Elizabeth I during her last illness, and took the lead at the Hampton Court Conference. He succeeded Whitgift as Archbishop of Canterbury in 1604, and assisted in re-establishing episcopacy in Scotland. |
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