John Budden was an English jurist, Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford, and Principal of Broadgates Hall.

Life

He was the son of John Budden of Canford, Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

—his birthplace. He entered Merton College, Oxford, in Michaelmas 1582, was admitted a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford

Trinity College, Oxford

The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope , or Trinity College for short, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It stands on Broad Street, next door to Balliol College and Blackwells bookshop,...

, on 30 May 1583, and proceeded B.A. on 29 October 1586, M.A. on 27 June 1589, and B.C.L. and D.C.L. on 8 July 1602. At the request of Thomas Allen

Thomas Allen (mathematician)

Thomas Allen was an English mathematician and astrologer.-Life:He was admitted scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1561; and graduated as M.A. in 1567...

, he migrated to Gloucester Hall about 1587, and devoted himself to civil law

Civil law (legal system)

Civil law is a legal system inspired by Roman law and whose primary feature is that laws are codified into collections, as compared to common law systems that gives great precedential weight to common law on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different...

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Before 1602 he became philosophy reader at Magdalen College

Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...

, held the office of Principal of New Inn Hall from 1609 to 1618, and was Regius professor of civil law, and principal of Broadgates Hall. He died at Broadgates Hall on 11 June 1620, and was buried in the neighbouring church of St. Aldate's.

Works

He was the author of Latin lives of Bishop William Waynflete

William Waynflete

William Waynflete , born William Patten, was Bishop of Winchester from 1447 to 1486, and Lord Chancellor of England from 1456 to 1460. He is best remembered as the founder of Magdalen College and Magdalen College School in Oxford....

, Oxon. 1602, and of Archbishop John Morton, London, 1607. The former was published by William Bates

William Bates (minister)

William Bates was an English presbyterian minister.-Life:He was born in London in November 1625, and was educated at Cambridge, initially at Emmanuel College and subsequently at Queens' College. In 1647 he proceeded B.A. He was a presbyterian. His first living was St...

, and was republished in the volume entitled Vitæ selectorum aliquot virorum, London, 1681. Budden also translated into Latin Thomas Bodley

Thomas Bodley

Sir Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.-Biography:...

's Statutes of the Public Library and Sir Thomas Smith's Commonwealth of England (1610, other editions in 1625 and 1630), and into English (from the French of Pierre Ayrault) A Discourse for Parents' Honour and Authority over their Children, London, 1614, dedicated to Tobias Matthew

Tobias Matthew

Tobias Matthew was Archbishop of York.-Life:He was the son of Sir John Matthew of Ross in Herefordshire, England, and of his wife Eleanor Crofton of Ludlow. He was born at Bristol and was educated at Wells, Somerset, and then in succession at University College and Christ Church, Oxford...

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