John Jegon

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Education and academic career

He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. and became a Fellow in 1572, and was then at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he became Master in 1590.[5][6] His pupils included both Roger Manners and Francis Manners, Earls of Rutland.[7]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He had a long correspondence with their mother Elizabeth, widow of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland.[8]

He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, from 1596 to 1598. As Vice-Chancellor he attempted to discipline John Rudd.[9]

Clerical career

He became Dean of Norwich in 1601, with the recommendation of John Whitgift.[10] Two years later he was appointed as Bishop there. He resided in Aylsham.[11]

Family

He married Dorothy, daughter of Richard Vaughan. On his death she married the diplomat Sir Charles Cornwallis.[12]

Notes

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  1. Ian Atherton, Norwich Cathedral: Church, City, and Diocese, 1096-1996 (1996), p. 513.
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  3. Susan Doran, Princes, Pastors and People: The Church and Religion in England, 1500-1700 (2003), p. 166.
  4. Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster, Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia (2006), p. 27.
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  6. Dictionary of National Biography
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  8. Kenneth Charlton, Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England (1999), p. 223.
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  10. Ian Atherton, Norwich Cathedral: Church, City, and Diocese, 1096-1996 (1996), p. 523.
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Academic offices
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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Church of England titles
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/check Bishop of Norwich
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