John Young (c. 1532 – 1605) was an English academic and bishop.
John Young | |
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Bishop of Rochester | |
Church | Church of England |
Diocese | Diocese of Rochester |
Elected | 1578 |
Term ended | 1605 (death) |
Predecessor | John Piers |
Successor | William Barlow |
Other post(s) | Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge (1567–1578) |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1532 |
Died | 1605 |
Denomination | Anglican |
Profession | Academic |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Early life
editHe was educated at Mercers' School in London, and graduated BA at the University of Cambridge in 1552.[1] He became a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1553, and Master there in 1567. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1569.[2]
Career
editHe became Bishop of Rochester in 1578, employing Edmund Spenser as secretary for a short time early in his tenure. In The Shepheardes Calender Young appears as Roffy, which abbreviates Roffensis, alluding to his see.[2][3][4]
Notes
edit- ^ "Young, John (YN551J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "Scholarly Resources / Biography | Spenser Online". english.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 January 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- ^ A. C. Hamilton, The Spenser Encyclopedia (1997), p. 535.
Further reading
edit- Percy W. Long, Spenser and the Bishop of Rochester, PMLA, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1916), pp. 713–735.
- Alexander Corbin Judson (1935), A biographical sketch of John Young, bishop of Rochester, with emphasis on his relations with Edmund Spenser
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