See also:JOHN See also:WHITGIFT (c. 1530-1604)
, See also:English See also:archbishop, was the eldest son of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Whitgift, See also:merchant of See also:Great See also:Grimsby, See also:Lincolnshire, where he was See also:born, according to one See also:account in 1533, but according to a calculation founded on a statement of his own in 1530
.
At an See also:early See also:age his See also:education was entrusted to his See also:uncle, See also:Robert Whitgift, See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
abbot of the neighbouring monastery of Wellow, by whose See also:advice he was afterwards sent to St See also:Anthony's school, See also:London
.
In 1549 he matriculated at Queens' See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and in May 1550 he migrated to See also:Pembroke See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, where he had the See also:martyr See also:John See also:Bradford for a See also:tutor
.
In May 1555 he became a See also:fellow of Peterhouse
.
Having taken orders in 156o, he became in the same See also:year See also:chaplain to See also:Richard See also:Cox, See also:bishop of See also:Ely, who collated him to the rectory of Teversham, See also:Cambridgeshire
.
In 1563 he was appointed See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:professor of divinity at Cambridge, and his lectures gave such See also:satisfaction to the authorities that on the 5th of See also:July 1566 they considerably augmented his See also:stipend
.
The following year he was appointed regius professor of divinity, and also became See also:master first of Pembroke Hall and then of Trinity
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He had a See also:principal See also:share in compiling the statutes of the university, which passed the great See also:seal on the 25th of See also:September 1570, and in See also:November following he was chosen See also:vice-See also:chancellor
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See also:Macaulay's description of Whitgift as " a narrow, mean, tyrannical See also:priest, who gained See also:power by servility and adulation," is tinged with rhetorical exaggeration; but undoubtedly Whitgift's extreme High See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church notions led him to treat the Puritans with exceptional intolerance
.
In a See also:pulpit controversy with See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Cartwright, regarding the constitutions and customs of the Church of See also:England, he showed himself Cartwright's inferior in oratorical effectiveness, but the See also:balance was redressed by the exercise of arbitrary authority
.
Whitgift, with other heads of the university, deprived Cartwright in 1570 of his professorship, and in September 1571 exercised his See also:prerogative as master of Trinity to deprive him of his fellowship
.
In See also:June of the same year Whitgift was nominated See also:dean of See also:Lincoln
.
In the following year he published An Answere to a Certain See also:Libel intituled an Admonition to the See also:Parliament, which led to further controversy between the two divines
.
On the 24th of See also:March 1577, Whitgift was appointed bishop of See also:Worcester, and during the See also:absence of See also:Sir Henry See also:Sidney in See also:Ireland (1577) he acted as vice-See also:president of See also:Wales
.
In See also:August 1583 he was appointed archbishop of See also:Canterbury, and thus was largely instrumental in giving its See also:special complexion to the church of the See also:Reformation
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Although he wrote a See also:letter to See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth remonstrating against the See also:alienation of church See also:property, Whitgift always retained her special confidence
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In his policy against the Puritans, and in his vigorous enforcement of the subscription test, he thoroughly carried out the queen's policy of religious uniformity
.
He See also:drew up articles aimed at
n<onforming ministers, and obtained increased See also:powers for the See also:Court of High See also:Commission
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In 1586 he became a privy councillor
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His See also:action gave rise to the Marprelate tracts, in which the bishops and See also:clergy were bitterly attacked
.
Through Whitgift's vigilance the printers of the tracts were, however, discovered and punished; and in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order more effectually to check the publication of such opinions he got a See also:law passed in 1593 making See also:Puritanism an offence against the See also:statute law
.
In the controversy between See also:Walter Travers and Richard See also:- HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
- HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
- HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
- HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
- HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)
Hooker he interposed by prohibiting the See also:preaching of the former; and he moreover presented Hooker with the rectory of Boscombe in See also:Wiltshire, in order to afford him more leisure to See also:complete his Ecclesiastical Polity, a See also:work which, however, cannot be said to represent either Whitgift's theological or his ecclesiastical standpoint
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In 1595 he, in See also:conjunction with the bishop of London and other prelates, drew up the Calvinistic See also:instrument known as the See also:Lambeth Articles, which were not accepted by the church
.
Whitgift attended Elizabeth on her deathbed, and crowned See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I
.
He was See also:present at the See also:Hampton Court See also:Conference in See also:January 1604, and died at Lambeth on the 29th of the following See also:February
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He was buried in the church of See also:Croydon, and his See also:monument there with his recumbent effigy was in great See also:part destroyed in the See also:fire by which the church was burnt down in 1867
.
Whitgift is described by his biographer, Sir G
.
Paule, as of " See also:middle stature, strong and well shaped, of a See also:grave countenance and See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown complexion, See also:black See also:hair and eyes, his See also:- BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, Russ. barodd. Cf. Welsh barf, Lat.. barba, though, according to the New English Dictionary, the connexion is for phonetic reasons doubtful)
- BEARD, WILLIAM HOLBROOK (1825-1900)
beard neither See also:long nor thick." He was noted for his hospitality, and was somewhat ostentatious in his habits, sometimes visiting Canterbury and other towns attended by a See also:retinue of 800 horsemen
.
He See also:left several unpublished See also:works, which are included among the See also:MSS
.
Angliae
.
Many of his letters, articles, injunctions, &c. are calendared in the published volumes of the " See also:State See also:Paper " See also:series of the reign of Elizabeth
.
His Collected Works, edited for the See also:Parker Society by John Ayre (3 vols., Cambridge, 1851-1853), include, besides the controversial tracts already alluded to, two sermons published during his lifetime, a selection from his letters to See also:Cecil and others, and some portions of his unpublished MSS
.
A See also:Life of Whitgift by Sir G
.
Paule appeared in 1612, 2nd ed
.
1649
.
It was embodied by John See also:Strype in his Life and Acts of Whitgift (1718)
.
There is also a life in C
.
See also:Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical See also:Biography (1810), W
.
F
.
See also:Hook's Archbishops of Canterbury (1875), and vol. i. of Whitgif t's Collected Works
.
See also C.H
.
See also:- COOPER
- COOPER (or COUPER), THOMAS (c. 1517-1594)
- COOPER, ABRAHAM (1787—1868)
- COOPER, ALEXANDER (d. i66o)
- COOPER, CHARLES HENRY (18o8-1866)
- COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE (1789-1851)
- COOPER, PETER (1791-1883)
- COOPER, SAMUEL (1609-1672)
- COOPER, SIR ASTLEY PASTON (1768-1841)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1759–1840)
- COOPER, THOMAS (1805–1892)
- COOPER, THOMAS SIDNEY (1803–1902)
Cooper's Athenae Cantabrigienses
.
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