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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 SPENSER (1559-1614)  , president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was educated at Merchant Taylors' school,
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London, and Oxford . After graduating he became Greek reader in Corpus Christi College, and held that office for ten years, resigning in 1588 . He then
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left Oxford and held successively the livings of Alveley, Essex (1589-1592), Ardleigh, Essex (1592-1594),
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Faversham, Kent (1594-1599), and St Sepulchre's London (1599-1614) . He was also presented to the living of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, in 1592 . In 1607 he was appointed president of Corpus Christi College . After the
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death of his friend Richard Hooker he edited the first five books of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Politic (London, 1604) . The introduction to that
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work and A 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 Bible, serving on the New Testament committee .

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