SIR

See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)

JOHN

See also:

• POPHAM, SIR HOME RIGGS (1762-1820)
• SIR JOHN POPHAM (c. 1531-1607)

POPHAM (c. 1531-1607)  , English judge, was born at Huntworth, in Somerset, about 1531 . He was educated at Balliol College,Oxford, and called to the bar at the Middle Temple . Concerning his early life little is known, but he was probably a member of the parliament of 1558 . He was recorder of Bristol, and represented that city in parliament in 1571 and from 1572 to 1583 . He was elected Speaker in 1580, and in 1581 became attorney-general, a post which he occupied until his appointment as lord chief justice in 1592 . He presided at the trials of Sir Walter Raleigh and Guy Fawkes . Towards the end of his life Popham took a great interest in colonization, and was instrumental in procuring patents for the London and Plymouth companies for the colonization of Virginia . Popham was an advocate, too, of transportation abroad as a means of punishing rogues and vagabonds . His experiment in that direction, the Popham colony, an expedition under the leadership of his brother George (c . 1550-1608), had, however, but a brief career in its settlement (1607) on the Kennebec river . Popham died on the loth of June 1607, and was buried at Wellington, Somerset . See Foss, Lives of the Judges; J .

Winsor, History of America, vol. iii .