John Robinson (archdeacon of Bedford)
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John Robinson (died 1598) was an English priest and academic in the second half of the 16th century.[1]
Robinson was born in Richmondshire and educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2] He was President of St John's College, Oxford, from 1564 to 1572.[3] He held livings at East Treswell, Fulbeck, Thornton,[a] Great Easton, Brant Broughton, Fishtoft, Caistor, Kingston Bagpuze, Little Gransden (1587-97)[4] and Somersham. Robinson became Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral in 1573; and Archdeacon of Bedford in 1574, holding both positions until his death in 1598.[5]
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- ^ "Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum" p246: London; British Museum ; 1819
- ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p470
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Riader-Roissie
- ^ "Rectors of Little Gransden". Bluebell Benefice.
- ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1992), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 7, p. 14
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