Michael Honywood

Michael Honywood D.D. (1597 – 7 December, 1681) was an English churchman, Dean of Lincoln from 1660. Horwood was a bibliophile and he founded and funded the Lincoln Cathedral Library.

He was sixth son and ninth child of Robert Honywood of Charing, Kent, and of Marks Hall, Essex, by his second wife, Elizabeth. daughter of Sir Thomas Browne of Betchworth Castle, Surrey; Mary Honywood was his grandmother, and the parliamentarian Sir Thomas Honywood an elder brother. He was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in January 1615, M.A. 1618, B.D. 1636, and D.D. (by royal mandate) 1661.

Honywood became fellow of Christ's, where Thomas Bainbridge was master, and served the university offices of taxor in 1623, and of proctor in 1628. Richard Crackenthorpe, a friend, records help received from Honywood in his work on logic. He took part in college management, and helped forward the erection of the new fellows' buildings, completed in 1644, by advancing money, which was not repaid till 27 August 1649. While Honywood remained a fellow, John Milton was not eligible for a fellowship, under a statute limiting fellows to just one per county (by birth: Honywood and Milton were both born in Middlesex.

In 1640 Honywoood was appointed to the college living of Kegworth, Leicestershire, but he did not reside there; and when the First English Civil War threatened Cambridge at the beginning of 1642, he crossed to the Low Countries. During the protectorate he was at Utrecht, enjoying the friendship of William Sancroft and devoting himself to the collection of books. Another fellow bibliophile and friend from this time was Thomas Browne.

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