After attending The King's School, Chester[5] and/or Manchester Grammar School,[1][4] he went on to Cambridge, first entering Magdalene College, then moving to Pembroke College, where he matriculated in 1555.

[4] He was a Fellow of Christ's College 1558–1568, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity 1567–1569, Regius Professor of Divinity 1569–1580,[4] and President of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1568 to 1579.

Elizabeth Jocelin (née Brooke), author of The Mothers Legacie, To her Unborne Childe (1624), was his granddaughter.

[10] After his granddaughter's parents separated, and her mother returned home, Bishop Chaderton was mainly responsible for her upbringing.

Elizabeth's childhood was therefore passed in the house of Bishop Chaderton, who educated her.