John Howson
{{Short description|English academic and bishop}}
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| name = John Howson
| title = Bishop of Durham
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| diocese = Diocese of Durham
| term = 1628–1632
| predecessor = George Montaigne
| successor = Thomas Morton
| other_post = Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1602)
Bishop of Oxford (1619–1628)
Lord Lieutenant of Durham (1628–1632)
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| birth_date = {{circa|1557}}
| birth_place = Farringdon Without, London, England
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| buried = St Paul's Cathedral
| nationality = English
| religion = Anglican
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| spouse = Jane Floyd (married 10 August 1601 at Black Bourton)
| children = at least one, Anne Farnaby
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| education = St Paul's School, London
| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford
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John Howson ({{circa|1557}} – 6 February 1632) was an English academic and bishop.
Life
He was born in the London parish of St Bride's Church, and educated at St Paul's School.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Howson, John (1557?-1632)}}
He was a student and then a canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and Vice-Chancellor in 1602. James I of England appointed him to Chelsea College.Anthony Milton, Catholic and Reformed: The Roman and Protestant Churches in English Protestant Thought, 1600-1640 (2002), p. 57. He became rector of Brightwell Baldwin in 1608.{{cite web |url=http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/oxfordshire/brightwellbaldwin/church1.html |title=Parish church |website=www.ontaworld.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010528063929/http://www.ontaworld.co.uk/england/oxfordshire/brightwellbaldwin/church1.html |archive-date=2001-05-28}}
Conflicts in Oxford with Calvinist clergy led to his being accused in 1615 before the King of popery, by George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. He was able to convince the King that the charges were misplaced, and began to rise in the hierarchy, where he was an influence on the Arminian side.Kenneth Fincham, Nicholas Tyacke, Altars Restored: The Changing Face of English Religious Worship, 1547-c.1700 (2007), p. 125. He was Bishop of Oxford from 1619, and Bishop of Durham from his translation there in September 1628.
He was buried in Old St Paul's Cathedral in London, but the grave and monument were destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. His name appears on a modern monument in the crypt, listing important graves lost in the fire.
Works
- Remarriage Be Not Permitted After Adultery (1602){{Cite web |title=John Howson, Uxore Dimissa Propter Fornicatione Aliam Non Licet Superinducere (1602) {{!}} Anglican.net |url=https://www.anglican.net/works/john-howson-uxore-dimissa-propter-fornicatione-aliam-non-licet-superinducere-1602/ |access-date=2022-04-13 |language=en}}
- Certain sermons made in Oxford, anno Dom, 1616 (1622)
Family
His daughter Anne married Thomas Farnaby.
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