(1538– 7 November 1599[1]) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of England as the Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1576 to 1599.
[3] He became a pupil at Winchester College in 1550, before continuing with his education at New College, Oxford in July 1555, where he was elected a Fellow on 5 July 1557.
[3][4] In 1575, he was nominated Bishop of Sodor and Man by Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, and received royal assent on 5 November 1575 and again on 13 April 1576.
[2][3][5] He was consecrated at Lambeth Palace on 15 April 1576 by Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury.
[3][4] After holding the bishopric for twenty-three years, he died in office in Yorkshire on 7 November 1599, aged 61.