biography
pronunciation:
[lawd]
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| lived:
| (1573–1645)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and Archbishop of Canterbury, born in Reading, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was ordained in 1601. His learning and industry brought him many patrons, and he rapidly received preferment, becoming King's Chaplain (1611), Bishop of St David's (1621), Bishop of Bath and Wells and a privy councillor (1626), Bishop of London (1628), and Archbishop of Canterbury (1633). With Strafford and Charles I, he worked for absolutism in Church and state. In Scotland, his attempt (1635–7) to anglicize the Church led to the Bishops' Wars. In 1640 the Long Parliament impeached him. He was found guilty, and executed on Tower Hill. |
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