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John Watson (1520–1584) was Bishop of Winchester in the 1580s. ==Life== He was born in Evesham, Worcestershire England, the son of Thomas Watson and Agnes née Weeks. Thomas Watson was born in Evesham around 1491 and in 1544 purchased part of the former Evesham Abbey lands and the lordship of Bengeworth, across the River Avon from Evesham town. On those lands he built a fine Tudor house as the family home. It was named the Mansion House, and though much modified, retained that name until about 1970, when it was renamed the Evesham Hotel, which name it still bears in 2010.〔Information on Thomas Watson and the Mansion House from "Bengeworth" by Rev J.P. Shawcross, Pub. The Journal Press, Evesham, 1927, pp.113-5, 121-2; Information on the name change to Evesham Hotel verbally from John Jenkinson, the hotel's owner since 1975. This entry as originally written cited, as a source of information about Thomas Watson and the Mansion House:''A Transcript of the Parish Registers of Bengeworth and Bretforton'' by the Reverend W.H. Shawcross (with Pedigrees). It was not clear what information was provided by this document, and it has proved untraceable in Worcestershire archives. The entry also originally gave 'Evesham Arms Hotel' as the modern name for a building it described, which was clearly the Mansion House; this was an error, since the Evesham Arms was a public house, not a hotel, and was situated at Great Hampton, Evesham, not at Bengeworth (c/f "Evesham Inns and Signs : Collected Articles of T.J.S. Baylis" Pub. Vale of Evesham Historical Society, 2008 p.74〕 He qualified with a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University in June 1539. In 1540 he was elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. On 25 June 1544 he qualified with the Master of Arts. He graduated as Doctor of Medicine at Oxford 27 July 1573. Between 1572 and 1580 he was Master of the Hospital of St. Cross〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hospitals - St Cross, near Winchester | A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp. 193-197) )〕 and Dean of Winchester.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Houses of Benedictine monks - Priory of St Swithun, Winchester | A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2 (pp. 108-115) )〕 He became a prebendary of Winchester Cathedral on 14 December 1551 and 26 August 1559. On 7 February 1557/58 he was Collated to the Chancellorship of St Pauls Cathedral, London. In 1559 he was appointed Archdeacon of Surrey. In 1580 he lived in Wolvesey Castle Winchester. He was admitted as Dean of Winton on 14 February 1572/3 after Dr Frank Newton died. He served in this position until he became a bishop.〔''The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester''〕 He resigned from being a prebendary of Langford Manor in the church of Lincoln before 1574. Watson paid Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester 200 pounds to lobby for him not being made a bishop. The earl lobbied the Queen Elizabeth I saying "how otherwise it would be £200 out of his way". The Queen responded "Nay, then, Watson shall have it, he being more worthy thereof, who will give £200 to decline, than he who will give £2000 to attain it." Queen Elizabeth I bestowed the position of bishop to Watson. He was consecrated as bishop on 15 September 1580. Between 1580 and 1584 he was Bishop of Winchester.〔Stephen Hyde Cassan: (''The Lives of the Bishops of Winchester'' ) 1827 vol 2 page 32-35〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Watson (bishop)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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