Robert Horne (bishop)
The Right Reverend Robert Horne | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Winchester | |
 Engraving of Robert Horne in 1576 | |
| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Winchester |
| Installed | 1560 |
| Term ended | 1579 (death) [1] |
| Predecessor | John White |
| Successor | John Watson |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 1560 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c 1510 |
| Died | 1579 |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Occupation | previously Dean of Durham |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
Robert Horne (1510s – 1579
He was a Fellow of
The death of Dean Whitehead in 1551 had enabled the ultra-Protestant Robert Horne to be appointed to the Deanery, but only one conservative prebendary had died and been replaced during the reign, so Horne had very little support in the Chapter and could achieve only the most superficial conformity, even at the cost of making himself very unpopular. The advent of Mary must have caused huge relief in the close. Horne fled, lamenting the failure of his hopes [...][9]
In exile, he was at
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In controversy with
He was one of the Bishops' Bible translators (1568), responsible for the Book of Isaiah, Book of Jeremiah, and Book of Lamentations.[6]
Notes
- ^ "Bishops of Winchester". Retrieved 15 May 2011.
- ^ Ralph Houlbrooke, ‘Horne, Robert (1513x15–1579)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008
- ^ John Foxe's Book of Martyrs Archived 2007-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bishops of Winchester Cathedral
- ^ "Horne, Robert (HN536R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Bishops, Priors and Deans of Durham
- ^ Durham Cathedral
- ^ David Loades, Durham, the Reformation and the Prayer Book, PDF, p. 7.
- ISBN 978-90-221-0576-4.
- ^ Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars (1992), pp. 568-9.
- ^ John Foxe's Book of Martyrs
External links
- Works by Robert Horne at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
