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Revision as of 21:19, 1 November 2009
Edmund Scambler (c.1520–1594) was an English bishop.
Life
He was born at Gressingham, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Queens' College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1542.[1][2][3]
Under Mary I of England he was pastor to a covert Protestant congregation in London.[4] He was a chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker.[5]
He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1561, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible.[3][6] He suspended Eusebius Pagit, then vicar of Lamport, in 1574.[7]
In 1585 he became Bishop of Norwich. He was responsible there for the heresy proceedings against Francis Kett.[8]
Notes
- ^ "Scambler, Edmund (SCMR541E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53271
- ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, article Parker, Matthew.
- ^ http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch11.htm
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography, article Pagit, Eusebius.
- ^ Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., From Eschatology to Arian Heresy: The Case of Francis Kett (d. 1589), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 459-473.