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4 unusual facts about Hugh Latimer


Hugh Latimer

A square, Latimer Square, is named after the man and is located in central Christchurch, New Zealand.

The subject of his disputation for the degree was a refutation of the new ideas of the Reformation emerging from the Continent, in particular the doctrines of Philipp Melanchthon.

Jackie Grant

Grant took a leading role in this service when he paraphrased Hugh Latimer to say "Be of good cheer, Adams College, we have these years lit a flame in South Africa as I trust will never be put out".

Thomas Bagard

Bagard appears to have at first moderately supported Cromwell's ecclesiastical reforms, and, although he disagreed with him in many points of doctrine, to have been on good terms with Hugh Latimer, both before and after he became bishop of Worcester in 1535.


Bishop of Bristol

Though he took part in the trial of John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, and served also on a commission to try Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, in general he took no active part in the proceedings on the score of heresy.

Nicholas Shaxton

He was regarded, alongside Hugh Latimer and Thomas Barlow as one of the most well known new bishops of the 1530s.


see also

The Annual Register

In 1947 The Annual Register acquired an Advisory Board for the first time consisting of the then editor, Ivison Macadam, the Assistant Editor, Hugh Latimer, and five representatives nominated by: the English Association, the Arts Council of Great Britain, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the Royal Historical Society.