1565) was an English academic, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1570.
He was the seventh son of Sir John Kingsmill of Fribock, Hampshire.
[1] Entering Magdalen College, Oxford, as a demy, he graduated B.A.
On 15 December 1565, he was appointed public orator and orated for the visit of Elizabeth I of England to Oxford in 1566, when he gave a very long historical speech.
He suffered from mental illness for a time, and was obliged to take on Richard Hooker as a deputy in 1579.