Hugh Latimer
Hugh Latimer 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.
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- Born in
- Thurcaston
- Educated at
- Peterhouse
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1485
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Birth1555
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