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HUMPHREY (or HUMFREY), See also:LAWRENCE (1527?-1590)  , See also:president of Magdalen See also:College, See also:Oxford, and See also:dean successively of See also:Gloucester and See also:Winchester, was See also:born at See also:Newport Pagnel . He was elected demy of Magdalen College in 1546 and See also:fellow in 1548 . He graduated B.A. in 1549, M.A. in 1552, and B.D. and D.D. in 1562 . He was noted as one of the most promising pupils of See also:Peter See also:Martyr, and on See also:Mary's See also:accession obtained leave from his college to travel abroad . He lived at See also:Basel, See also:Zurich, See also:Frank-fort and See also:Geneva, making the acquaintance of the leading Swiss divines, whose ecclesiastical views he adopted . His leave of See also:absence having expired in 1556, he ceased to be fellow of Magdalen . He returned to See also:England at See also:Elizabeth's accession, was appointed regius See also:professor of divinity at Oxford in 156o, and was recommended by See also:Archbishop See also:Parker and others for See also:election as president of Magdalen . The See also:fellows refused at first to elect so pronounced a reformer, but they yielded in 1561, and See also:Humphrey gradually converted the college into a stronghold of See also:Puritanism . In 1564 he and his friend See also:Thomas See also:Sampson, dean of See also:Christ See also:Church, were called before Parker for refusing to See also:wear the prescribed ecclesiastical See also:vestments; and a prolonged controversy See also:broke out, in which See also:Bullinger and other See also:foreign theologians took See also:part as well as most of the leading divines in England . In spite of Bullinger's See also:advice, Humphrey refused to conform; and Parker wished to deprive him as well as Sampson . But the See also:presidency of Magdalen was elective and the visitor of the college was not Parker but the See also:bishop of Winchester; and Humphrey escaped with temporary retirement . Parker, in fact, was not supported by the See also:council; in 1566 Humphrey was selected to preach at St See also:Paul's See also:Cross, and was allowed to do so without the vestments .

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year he took a prominent part in the ceremonies connected with Elizabeth's visit to Oxford . On this occasion he wore his See also:doctor's See also:gown and See also:habit, which the See also:queen told him " became him very well "; and his resistance now began to weaken . He yielded on the point before 1571 when he was made dean of Gloucester . In 1578 he was one of the divines selected to attend a See also:diet at Schmalkalde to discuss the project of a theological See also:accommodation between the Lutheran and Reformed churches; and in 158o he was made dean of Winchester . In 1585 he was persuaded by his bishop, See also:Cooper, to restore the use of surplices,in Magdalen College See also:chapel . He died on the 1st of See also:February 1590 and was buried in the college chapel, where there is a mural See also:monument to his memory; a portrait is in Magdalen College school . Humphrey was a voluminous writer on theological and other subjects . At Parker's See also:desire he wrote a See also:life of his friend and See also:patron Bishop See also:Jewel, which was published in 1573 and was also prefixed to the edition of Jewl4l's See also:works issued in 1600 . One of his books against the See also:Jesuits was included in vol. iii. of the Doctrina Jesuitarum per verios authores, published at La Rochelle (6 vols., 1585-1586) . See Bloxam's See also:Register of Magdalen College, iv . Io4-132; Cooper's Athenae Cantabrigienses; See also:Wood's Athenae Oxonienses; See also:Gough's See also:Index to Parker See also:Soc . Publ.; See also:Strype's Works: Cal .

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State Papers (Dom . 1547–1590); Acts of the Privy Council; See also:Burnet's Hist . Ref.; See also:Collier's See also:Eccles . Hist . ; See also:Dixon's Church Hist. vol. vi.; Dict . Nai . Biog . (A . F .

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