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JOHN BUCKERIDGE (c. 1562-1631)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 720 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN BUCKERIDGE (c. 1562-1631)  ,
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English divine, was a son of William Buckeridge, and was educated at the Merchant Taylors school and at St John's College, Oxford . He became a
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fellow of his college, and acted as tutor to William Laud, whose opinions were perhaps shaped by him . Leaving Oxford, Buckeridge held• several livings, and was highly esteemed by King James I., whose
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chaplain he became . In 16o5 he was elected president of St John's College, a position which he vacated on being made bishop of Rochester in 1611 . He was transferred to the bishopric of Ely in 1628, and died on the 23rd of May 1631 . The bishop won some fame as a theologian and a controversialist . Among his intimate friends was Bishop Lancelot Andrewes, whose " Ninety-one Sermons " were published by Laud and Buckeridge in 1629 .

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