James Pilkington (bishop)
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The Right Reverend James Pilkington, B.D. |
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| Bishop of Durham | |
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| Province | York |
| Diocese | Durham |
| Installed | 10 April 1561 |
| Term ended | 23 January 1576 |
| Predecessor | Cuthbert Tunstall |
| Successor | Richard Barnes |
| Other posts | Regius Professor of Divinity at Cambridge and Master of St John's College, Cambridge |
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| Consecration | 2 March 1561 |
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| Born | 1520 Rivington, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 23 January 1576, aged 55 Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England |
| Buried | Durham Cathedral |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Parents | Richard Pilkington and Alice Asshaw |
| Spouse | Alice Kingsmill |
| Children | two sons and two daughters |
| Occupation | Bishop of Durham and Author |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College, Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge |
James Pilkington (1520–1576), was born in Rivington, Lancashire, England. He became the first Protestant Bishop of Durham from 1561 until his death in 1576. He founded Rivington Grammar School and was an Elizabethan author and orator.
James was the second son of Richard Pilkington of Rivington Hall, in the parish of Bolton le Moors and Alice Asshaw of Hall oth' Hill, near Heath Charnock in the parish of Chorley in Lancashire. His paternal ancestry is a junior line of the Pilkington family who owned land at Rivington from 1212 where they were Lords of the manor.
James Pilkington's early education is speculated to have been at Manchester Grammar School. He entered Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1536, and moved to St John's College, Cambridge, from where he graduated B.A. in 1539, and M.A. in 1542. James Pilkington was appointed Vicar of Kendal in 1545. He resigned this position to return to Cambridge. From 1547 he was granted right to preach under the ecclesiastical seal. In 1550 he became president of the college and graduated Bachelor of Theology in 1551.
In or before 1564 James Pilkington privately married Alice Kingsmill (died 25 June 1594), daughter of Sir John Kingsmill of Sydmonton Court in Hampshire, a leading Protestant. They had two sons and two daughters:
His sons Joshua and Isaac, died in infancy. His daughter Deborah (born 1564 – died unknown) married twice, first to Walter Dunch (circa 1552 – 4 June 1594), of Avebury Manor in Wiltshire, M.P. for Dunwich, then she married Sir James Mervyn, of Fonthill Gifford also in Wiltshire, M.P. for that county. His younger daughter Ruth (died 1627) became the second wife of Sir Henry Harrington, of the City of London in 1587, they had a son, Henry.
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