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John Young (bishop of Rochester)

John Young (bishop of Rochester)

English academic and bishop

This article is about the Anglican bishop of Rochester. For the medieval suffragan bishop, see John Young (suffragan bishop in London). For the Episcopal bishop of Florida, see John F. Young.

John Young (c. 1532 – 1605) was an English academic and bishop.

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Early life

He 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

He 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

  1. [1]
    "Young, John (YN551J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. [2]
    Concise Dictionary of National Biography
  3. [3]
    "Scholarly Resources / Biography | Spenser Online". english.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 January 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
  4. [4]
    A. C. Hamilton, The Spenser Encyclopedia (1997), p. 535.

Further reading

  • 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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