English archbishop, born in Hawkshead, Lancashire. He graduated at Cambridge (1519); took orders in the Church of England; became vice-chancellor of Cambridge University in 1553; was deprived of his office because he had preached a sermon in support of the royal claims of Lady Jane Grey, and was imprisoned for refusing to proclaim Queen Mary. On his liberation he went to the Continent, but returned when Elizabeth ascended the throne; was created bishop of Worcester (1559); of London (1570); and archbishop of York (1576). A volume of his poems was published in 1585. He died on the 10th of July 1588.
