John Watson (Master of Christ's College, Cambridge)
John Watson, D.D. was a priest and academic in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.[1]
Watson was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1498; MA in 1501; and B.D. in 1513. He held livings at Elsworth, White Notley and St Mary Woolnoth in the City of London. He was Fellow of Christ's from 1501 to 1516; and Master of Christ's from 1517 to 1531.[2] He was twice Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge: from 1518 to 1520, and from 1530 to 1532.[3]
He died in March 1537.
References
[edit]- ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. iv. Saal – Zuinglius, (1927) p348
- ^ Masters of Christ's
- ^ Vice Chancellors of the University of Cambridge