Men of Kent and Kentishmen/John Poynet
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
John Poynet,
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER,
Was born in 1516, and educated at King's College, Cambridge. He became early distinguished as a mathematician and mechanist. Embracing the principles of the Reformation, he was made Bishop of Rochester by Edward VI., at the early age of thirty-three, whence he was advanced in 1551 to the See of Winchester. When Queen Mary came to the throne, he retired to Strasburg, where he died on April 11, 1556. He wrote many treatises of a controversial nature, but his most remarkable performance was the composition of King Edward's Catechism, which appeared in 1553.
[See Godwin "de Præsulibus," "Fuller's Worthies," Bale and Tanner "de Scriptoribus Britannicis."]