John Parkhurst
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The Right Reverend John Parkhurst |
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| Bishop of Norwich | |
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| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Norwich |
| Elected | 13 April 1560 |
| Installed | September 1560 |
| Term ended | 2 February 1575 (death) |
| Predecessor | John Hopton |
| Successor | Edmund Freke |
| Other posts | Chaplain to the Queen |
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| Ordination | 1532 |
| Consecration | September 1560 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
c. 1512 Guildford, Surrey |
| Died | 2 February 1575 Norwich, Norfolk |
| Buried | Norwich Cathedral |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | George Parkhurst |
| Spouse | Margaret Garnish |
| Occupation | previously Latin scholar |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford |
John Parkhurst (c.1512 – 2 February 1575) was an English Marian exile and from 1560 the Bishop of Norwich.
Born about 1512, he was son of George Parkhurst of Guildford, Surrey. He initially attended the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, before at an early age moving to Magdalen College School at Oxford. Subsequently, he joined Merton College, where he was admitted to a fellowship in 1529 after graduating B.A. (24 July 1528). He was an adept in the composition of Latin epigrams. He took holy orders in 1532, and proceeded M.A. 19 February 1533. While he was acting as tutor at Merton, John Jewel was his pupil and they remained friends through life.
When, in 1543, Henry VIII and Queen Catherine Parr visited Oxford, Parkhurst wrote Latin verses in their honour and became chaplain to the queen. He was already chaplain to Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and to his wife Catherine, and his friends included Miles Coverdale and John Aylmer. Soon afterwards he was appointed rector of Pimperne, Dorset, and in 1549 was presented by Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley to the living of Cleeve Episcopi, Gloucestershire. Jewel and other Oxford scholars often visited him there; when Jewel gave humanity lectures at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Parkhurst went over to hear him, and declared in a Latin epigram that he was metamorphosed from a tutor into a pupil.
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