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Hugh Latimer (c. 1487 – 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the stake , becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism .
After that, there was time to deal with the religious leaders of the English Reformation and so on 8 March 1554 the Privy Council ordered Cranmer, Ridley, and Hugh Latimer to be transferred to Bocardo prison in Oxford to await trial for heresy. The trial of Latimer and Ridley started shortly after Cranmer's with John Jewel acting as notary to ...
Hugh Alexander Forbes Latimer (12 May 1913 – 12 June 2006) was an English actor and toy maker. [1] [2] He was educated at Oundle and Caius College, Cambridge, where he joined Footlights. He briefly attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, before appearing in White Cargo at the Brixton Theatre in 1936. [3]
Latimer himself, through the style of his sermons, typifies the plain, homely and direct speech of Piers and popular Protestantism. Anthony Anderson's The Shield of our Safetie (1581) uses Latimer's figure of the pastor as a plowman but is unwilling to ascribe special virtue to the commons and rural laborers. Godliness is lacking "from top to ...
Latimer and Ridley were burnt on 16 October 1555 for denying the Roman Catholic dogma of Transubstantiation. Cranmer was burnt five months later on 21 March 1556. [2] A small area paved with granite setts forming a cross in the centre of the road outside the front of Balliol College marks the site.
Hugh Latimer (1470–1555) Oxford Martyrs; Thomas Cranmer (1489–1556) Oxford Martyrs; Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626) John Donne (1572–1631) John Tillotson (1630–1694) John Newton (1725–1807) Author of Amazing Grace; Laurence Sterne (1713–1759), mainly in book form; Samuel Clapham (known as Theophilus St. John) (1755–1830) J. C ...
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Among his friends were Matthew Parker, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, and Hugh Latimer. Latimer, previously a strenuous conservative, was completely won over, and a warm friendship sprang up between him and Bilney. "By his confession", said Latimer, "I learned more than in twenty years before". [3]