Edmund Bonner was an English prelate. He was born about 1495 of obscure parentage and died in 1569. He took a doctor's degree at Oxford in 1525, and, attracting the notice of Cardinal Wolsey, received from him several offices in the church. On the death of Wolsey he acquired the favour of Henry VIII, who made him one of his chaplains, and sent him to Rome to advocate his divorce from Queen Catharine. In 1540 he was consecrated Bishop of London, but on the death of Henry VIII in 1547, having refused to take the oath of supremacy, he was deprived of his see and thrown into prison. On the accession of Mary he was restored to his bishopric, and he distinguished himself during this reign by a persecution of the Protestants, 200 of whom he was instrumental in bringing to the stake. After Elizabeth I succeeded he remained unmolested until his refusal to take the oath of supremacy, on which he was committed to the Marshalsea in 1560, where he remained a prisoner until his death in 1569. Research Edmund Bonner
Mandell Creighton was an English bishop and historian. He was born in 1843 and died in 1901. He was educated at Durham grammar-school and Merton College, Oxford, had a distinguished academical career, was fellow and tutor of his college, took orders, and was vicar of Embleton, Northumberland, for nine years. In 1884 he was appointed Dixie professor of ecclesiastical history at Cambridge, in 1891 was called to be bishop of Peterborough, and in 1897, on Dr. Temple's promotion to the archbishopric of Canterbury, became bishop of London. His chief work is History of the Papacy during the Reformation (published in five volumes between 1882 and 1894). He also wrote Life of Simon de Montfort, The Age of Elizabeth, The Tudors and the Reformation, Life of Cardinal Wolsey; with Historical Essays and Reviews,and Thoughts on Education, edited by his wife. Research Mandell Creighton
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