Robert Norgate (priest)

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Robert Norgate, D.D. (died 1587) was an English priest and academic in the second half of the sixteenth century.^[1]^[2]

Norgate was born in Aylsham. He was educated at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1565; MA in 1568; and B.D. in 1575. He was appointed Fellow in 1567; and Master in 1573. A nephew of Matthew Parker, then Archbishop of Canterbury and a former Master of the College, Norgate was installed as Master when Thomas Aldrich was forced out for displaying Puritan sympathies.^[3] He was elected Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge for the year 1584.^[4] He held livings at Forncett and Little Gransden. He died at the Master's Lodge on 2 November 1587.

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References

↑ Wright, Stephen. "Norgate, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20253.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
↑ 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. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p262
↑ Strype, John (1821) [first published 1711]. The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 279. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
↑ University of Cambridge web-site

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[1] Wright, Stephen. "Norgate, Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20253.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] 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. iii. Kaile – Ryves, (1924) p262

[3] Strype, John (1821) [first published 1711]. The Life and Acts of Matthew Parker. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 279. Retrieved 26 December 2024.

[4] University of Cambridge web-site

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