Lancelot Andrewes

Lancelot Andrewes was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. During the latters reign, Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, of Ely and of Winchester and oversaw the translation of the King James Version of the Bible . In the Church of England he is commemorated onSeptember with a Lesser Festival.

Andrewes was born in 1555 near All Hallows, Barking, by the Tower of London, of an ancient Suffolk family later domiciled at Chichester Hall, at Rawreth in Essex his father, Thomas, was master of Trinity House. Andrewes attended the Coopers free school, Ratcliff, in the parish of Stepney and then the Merchant Taylors School under Richard Mulcaster. In 1571 he entered Pembroke Hall, Cambridge and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, proceeding to a Master of Arts degree in 1578. His academic reputation spread so quickly that on the foundation in 1571 of Jesus College, Oxford he was named in the charter as one of the founding scholars without his privity his connection with the college seems to have been purely notional, however. In 1576 he was elected fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge onJune 1580 he was ordained a priest by William Chaderton, Bishop of Chester and in 1581 was incorporated Master of Arts at Oxford. As catechist at his college he read lectures on the Decalo

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