biography
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| (1500–81)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and Protestant reformer, born in Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and became headmaster of Eton, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford (1547–52). On the accession of Mary I he was imprisoned, and went into exile in Frankfurt, where he was a bitter opponent of John Knox and his Calvinist doctrines. Back in England, he was appointed Bishop of Ely (1559–80). |
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