William Cole (Puritan)
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William Cole was an English Puritan
clergyman, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
and Dean of Lincoln
.
A Protestant refugee from Marian
England, Cole returned on Elizabeth
accession and was appointed President of Corpus Christi in 1568, a controversial appointment, since most of the conservative fellowship was opposed to his Puritan
beliefs and his status as a married clergyman.
He was persuaded to resign the presidency in 1598 in favour of John Rainolds
, with whom he swapped jobs, going to be Dean of Lincoln until his death in 1600.
His daughter Sibilla married, as her second husband, Robert Dover (1575?–1641), lawyer, author and wit, best known as the founder and for many years director of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.
Puritan
The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England...
clergyman, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom...
and Dean of Lincoln
Dean of Lincoln
The Dean of Lincoln is the head of the Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral in the city of Lincoln, England in the Diocese of Lincoln. The post is currently held by the Very Revd Philip John Warr Buckler, MA.-References:...
.
A Protestant refugee from Marian
Mary I of England
Mary I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death.She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. Her younger half-brother, Edward VI, succeeded Henry in 1547...
England, Cole returned on Elizabeth
Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...
accession and was appointed President of Corpus Christi in 1568, a controversial appointment, since most of the conservative fellowship was opposed to his Puritan
Puritan
The Puritans were a significant grouping of English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by some Marian exiles from the clergy shortly after the accession of Elizabeth I of England in 1558, as an activist movement within the Church of England...
beliefs and his status as a married clergyman.
He was persuaded to resign the presidency in 1598 in favour of John Rainolds
John Rainolds
John Rainolds , English divine, was born about Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near Exeter.He was educated at Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford, becoming a fellow of the latter in 1568. In 1572-73 he was appointed reader in Greek, and his lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric laid the sure basis of...
, with whom he swapped jobs, going to be Dean of Lincoln until his death in 1600.
His daughter Sibilla married, as her second husband, Robert Dover (1575?–1641), lawyer, author and wit, best known as the founder and for many years director of the Cotswold Olimpick Games.