John Whitgift

John Whitgift, unknown artist, ca.1600

John Whitgift (* between 1530 and 1533 in Grimsby , Lincolnshire , † February 29, 1604 in Lambeth ) was Archbishop of Canterbury .

Whitgift studied at Trinity College of the University of Cambridge and was a professor there for some time, from 1567 also as Regius Professur of Divinity . In 1571 he was appointed dean in Lincoln and 1577 the Bishop of Worcester appointed. In 1583 it appointed Elizabeth I to the Archbishop of Canterbury .

Whitgift was a Calvinist and found the emerging Puritan writings heretical to the Church of England . He had numerous writings, including William Shakespeare 's The Phoenix and the Turtledove , censored. The dispute with the Marprelate controversy (1588–1589) reached its climax .

In 1595 he founded the Whitgift School in Croydon . One of his last official acts was the coronation of James I in January 1604. A month later Whitgift died.

literature

• Whitgift, John . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): 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. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 4 : Hall – Zuingius . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1927, pp. 100 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sidney Lee:  Whitgift, John . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 61:  Whichcord - Williams. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1900, pp. 129 - 394 (English).
2. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 262.
3. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 212.

predecessor	Office	successor
Matthew Hutton	Regius Professur of Divinity 1557–1569	William Chaderton
Nicholas Bullingham	Bishop of Worcester 1577–1583	Edmund Freke
Edmund Grindal	Archbishop of Canterbury 1583–1604	Richard Bancroft