John Bell (dean of Ely)

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John Bell was a 16th-century English priest and academic.

Bell graduated B.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge; M.A. and B.D. from Peterhouse, Cambridge and became a Fellow there in 1554. [1] He was Master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1579 to 1589; [2] and Dean of Ely from 1589 to his death on 31 October 1591. [3]

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References

  1. 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. 1209–1752 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p128
  2. Jesus College, Cambridge web-site
  3. Deans, pp10-12, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 7, Ely, Norwich, Westminster and Worcester Dioceses. Institute of Historical Research, London, 1992