John Redman (Trinity College)

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John Redman (1499 – 4 November 1551, also written as Rydman) was a Tudor churchman and academic, the first Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1546–1551).

Redman studied at Corpus Christi College, Oxford; St John's College, Cambridge; and the University of Paris. At Cambridge he graduated B.A. 1526, M.A. (incorporated from Paris) 1530, B.D. 1534, D.D. 1537. He became a fellow of St John's College in 1530, was Public Orator 1537–1538, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity from 1538 to 1542, and Warden of King's Hall from 1542 to 1546. In 1546 he was appointed by Henry VIII of England to be the first Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and from 1549 to 1551 combined this with the Lady Margaret's divinity chair. He rebuked William Latimer over doctrinal matters.

He died on 4 November 1551, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

References

Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Rabbetts-Rhodes
"Redman, John (RDMN525J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
"John Redman". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 26 September 2019.

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Academic offices
New title	Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1546–1551	Succeeded byWilliam Bill

v t e Masters of Trinity College, Cambridge
John Redman William Bill John Christopherson Robert Beaumont John Whitgift John Still Thomas Nevile John Richardson Leonard Mawe Samuel Brooke Thomas Comber Thomas Hill John Arrowsmith John Wilkins Henry Ferne John Pearson Isaac Barrow John North John Montagu Richard Bentley Robert Smith John Hinchliffe Thomas Postlethwaite William Lort Mansel Christopher Wordsworth William Whewell William Hepworth Thompson Henry Montagu Butler J. J. Thomson G. M. Trevelyan Edgar Adrian Rab Butler Alan Hodgkin Andrew Huxley Michael Atiyah Amartya Sen Martin Rees Gregory Winter Sally Davies

v t e Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity
John Fisher Thomas Cosyn William Burgoyne Desiderius Erasmus John Fawne Thomas Ashley William Buckmaster John Redman William Skete Wiliam Glyn John Redman Thomas Sedgwick George Bullock Robert Beaumont Matthew Hutton John Whitgift William Chaderton Thomas Cartwright John Still John Hansome Peter Baro Thomas Playfere John Davenant Samuel Ward Richard Holdsworth Richard Love Peter Gunning John Pearson Ralph Widdrington Humphrey Gower Robert Jenkin John Newcome Zachary Brooke John Mainwaring Herbert Marsh John James Blunt William Selwyn J. B. Lightfoot Charles Swainson F. J. A. Hort J. Rawson Lumby Arthur James Mason Alexander Kirkpatrick William Ralph Inge James Bethune-Baker F. S. Marsh C. F. D. Moule Morna Hooker Graham Stanton Judith Lieu George van Kooten

Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity

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