Richard Howland
Richard Howland (1540–1600) was an English churchman and academic, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and of St John's College, Cambridge, and bishop of Peterborough.[1]
Life
He was the son and heir of John Howland, of the city of London, and Anne Greenway, of
Peterhouse on 11 November 1562 and proceeded M. A. in 1564. His subsequent degrees were B.D. 1570, D.D. 1578.[2] He was incorporated M.A. of Oxford on 9 July 1567. In 1569 he became rector of Stathern, Leicestershire
, on the presentation of the master and fellows of Peterhouse.
Initially, Howland was a follower of
Great St. Mary's by John Millen or Milayn, a fellow of Christ's, in October 1573, he controverted its teaching in the same place during the afternoon.[3]
Howland gained the confidence of Burghley, then chancellor of the university, and became his chaplain. By Burghley's influence, he was appointed to the mastership of Magdalene College, then almost in a state of bankruptcy, in 1576.
When
Audley End, on 27 July 1578, and presented her with a Greek Testament and a pair of gloves, making a suitable oration. In 1583 he was again vice-chancellor. The following year Whitgift, by this time archbishop, recommended his old friend for either of the vacant sees of Bath and Wells or of Chichester or, failing these, for the deanery of Peterborough; in 1584 the queen nominated him to the see of Peterborough. He was consecrated by Whitgift at Lambeth
on 7 February 1585. The choice of a successor threatened to involve the college in a fierce internal struggle and it was arranged that Howland should continue to hold the mastership with his bishopric; he resigned in February 1586.
Howland pleaded the cause of his diocese against the excessive tax for furnishing light horse. As bishop he took the first place at the funeral of
Martin Mar-Prelate. He died unmarried at Castor
, near Peterborough, on 23 June 1600, and was buried in his cathedral, without any memorial or epitaph.
Notes
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Howland, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ "Howland, Richard (HWLT557R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ John Peile, Christ's College (1900), p. 83.
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