Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500-1714/Tregonwell, (Sir) John

by Joseph Foster

Tregonwell, (Sir) John, B.C.L. 30 June, 1516, D.C.L. 21 July, 1522; sometime of Broadgates Hall, and principal of Vine Hall, alias Peckwater's Inn, "a learned canonist," advocate of Doctors' Commons 1522, proctor for Henry VIII. in his divorce from Queen Katherine, knighted 1552, M.P. Scarborough Oct.-Dec., 1553, and had the abbey of Milton, alias Middleton, Dorset, settled on him, a master in chancery 1539, chancellor of Bath and Wells 1541, chief judge of the admiralty; died 13 Jan., 1565, buried at Milton. See Fasti, i. 60; & Lansdowne MS. 981, f. 29.