John Vesey or Veysey (c. 1462 – 23 October 1554) was Bishop of Exeter from 1519 until his death in 1554, having been briefly deposed 1551–3 by King Edward VI for his opposition to the Reformation.

He was born (as "John Harman"), probably in about 1462, the son of William Harman, Esquire,[4] of Moor Hall in the manor of Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire, a minor member of the county gentry, who bore arms of: Argent, on a cross sable a buck's head cabossed couped between four doves of the field.

[9][10] He received his education at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a doctorate in canon and civil law.

The township of Sutton Coldfield had fallen on hard times and Vesey took it on himself to restore the fortunes of the town and its inhabitants.

[14] Vesey survived the fall of Wolsey in 1529 and prospered reasonably until 1551 at age 89, when his opposition to the Reformation caught up with him and he was deprived by King Edward VI of his bishopric[15] and its temporalities in exchange for a pension of £485 a year.

[19] He died on 23 October 1554 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Coldfield, in which survives his monument, comprising his recumbent effigy on a chest tomb.