Martin Heton
Martin Heton (Heaton) (1554–1609) was an English bishop.
Life
His father George Heton was prominent in the London commercial world and as a church reformer.[1][2][3] His mother Joanna was daughter of Martin Bowes, Lord Mayor of London in 1545.[4] He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford.[5]
He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1588.[6] He became Dean of Winchester in 1589, and Bishop of Ely in 1599.[5] There is a story that Elizabeth I applied pressure to him, or his predecessor Richard Cox, over some land deals disadvantageous to the diocese, in a letter beginning “Proud prelate!”[7] But scholars from the nineteenth century onwards, for example Mandell Creighton, have considered the letter in question a hoax of the eighteenth century.[8]
A fat man, Heton was supposedly complimented by the king James I with the comment "Fat men are apt to make lean sermons; but yours are not lean, but larded with good learning."[9]
Family
His daughter Ann married Sir Robert Filmer.[10]
References
- ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=64544
- ↑ http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/johnfoxe/apparatus/usheressay.html
- ↑ ODNB entries for George Heton and his brother Thomas Heton.
- ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=52991#n26
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/oxford_people/key_university_officers/vcs_of_oxford.html
- ↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45119
- ↑ s: The English Church in the Reign of Elizabeth
- ↑ Remains, historical & literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester (1844-86), online text.
- ↑ David Miller (editor), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought (1991), p. 155.
| Church of England titles | Vacant | Bishop of Ely 1599–1609 |
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