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ALEXANDER NOWELL (c. 1507-1602)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 841 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALEXANDER See also:NOWELL (c. 1507-1602)  , See also:dean of St See also:Paul's; See also:London, was the eldest son of See also:John See also:Nowell of Read See also:Hall, See also:Whalley, See also:Lancashire, by his second wife See also:Elizabeth See also:Kay of See also:Rochdale . He was educated at See also:Middleton, Lancashire, and at Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford, where he is said to have shared rooms with John See also:Foxe the martyrologist . He was elected See also:fellow of Brasenose in 1526 . In 1543 he was appointed See also:master of See also:Westminster school, and in See also:December 1551 See also:prebendary of Westminster . He was elected in See also:September 1553 member of See also:parliament for See also:Looe in See also:Cornwall in See also:Queen See also:Mary's first parliament, but in See also:October 1553 a See also:committee of the See also:house reported that, having as prebendary of Westminster a seat in See also:convocation, he could not sit in the House of See also:Commons . He was also deprived of his prebend, probably as being a married See also:man, before May 1554, and sought See also:refuge at See also:Strassburg and See also:Frankfort, where he See also:developed puritan and almost presbyterian views . He submitted, however, to the Elizabethan See also:settlement of See also:religion, and was rewarded with the archdeaconry of See also:Middlesex, a canonry at See also:Canterbury and in 156o with the deanery of St Paul's . His sermons occasionally created some stir, and on one occasion Elizabeth interrupted his See also:sermon, telling him to stick to his See also:text and cease slighting the crucifix . He held the deanery of St Paul's for See also:forty-two years, surviving until the 13th of See also:February 1602 . Nowell is believed to have composed the See also:Catechism inserted before the See also:Order of See also:Confirmation in the See also:Prayer See also:Book of 1549, which was supplemented in 1604 and is still in use; but the See also:evidence is not conclusive . See also:Early in Elizabeth's reign, however, he wrote a larger catechism, to serve as a statement of See also:Protestant principles; it was printed in 1570, and in the same See also:year appeared his " See also:middle " catechism, designed it would seem for the instruction of " See also:simple curates." Nowell also established a See also:free school at Middleton and made other benefactions for educational purposes . He was twice married, but See also:left no See also:children .

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Ralph Churton, See also:Life of See also:Alexander Nowell (Oxford, 1809); G . See also:Burnet, See also:History of the See also:Reformation (new ed., Oxford, 1865) ; and R . W . See also:Dixon, History of the See also:Church of See also:England . Also the See also:Works of John See also:Strype; the Publications of the See also:Parker Society; the See also:Calendar of See also:State Papers, Domestic; and the See also:Diet . Nat . Biog., vol. lv .

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