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JOHN SPENSER (1559-1614)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 643 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:SPENSER (1559-1614)  , See also:president of Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford, was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' school, See also:London, and Oxford . After graduating he became See also:Greek reader in Corpus Christi College, and held that See also:office for ten years, resigning in 1588 . He then See also:left Oxford and held successively the livings of Alveley, See also:Essex (1589-1592), Ardleigh, Essex (1592-1594), See also:Faversham, See also:Kent (1594-1599), and St See also:Sepulchre's London (1599-1614) . He was also presented to the living of Broxbourne, See also:Hertfordshire, in 1592 . In 1607 he was appointed president of Corpus Christi College . After the See also:death of his friend See also:Richard See also:Hooker he edited the first five books of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politic (London, 1604) . The introduction to that See also:work and A See also:Sermon at Paule's Crosse on Esay V., 2, 3 (London, 1615) are his only published writings . He was, however; one of the translators of the authorized version of the See also:Bible, serving on the New Testament See also:committee .

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