. Historical portraits ... bo c V J3 a -^ ^ V X J3 C/) U t, 53 0 (0 ^ i—H o ■o O X s >> ^ (f) jn »—1 eq c (« -5 o o u. 3Oow > c c/7 <utnin o ^ ^ n -^ o o O 117 JOHN FISHER {d- 1535) Bishop of Rochester, came of a substantial merchants family ofBeverley, Yorkshire, where there was an excellent school attachedto the Minster. He passed for an old man at the time of his deathbut, as he did not take his , at Cambridge till 1487 nor his 1491, it is not likely that he was more than seventy years of became Master of his College (Michaelhouse) in 1497, and hadalready made
. Historical portraits ... bo c V J3 a -^ ^ V X J3 C/) U t, 53 0 (0 ^ i—H o ■o O X s >> ^ (f) jn »—1 eq c (« -5 o o u. 3Oow > c c/7 <utnin o ^ ^ n -^ o o O 117 JOHN FISHER {d- 1535) Bishop of Rochester, came of a substantial merchants family ofBeverley, Yorkshire, where there was an excellent school attachedto the Minster. He passed for an old man at the time of his deathbut, as he did not take his , at Cambridge till 1487 nor his 1491, it is not likely that he was more than seventy years of became Master of his College (Michaelhouse) in 1497, and hadalready made the acquaintance of Lady Margaret Beaufort, with whomas a benefactor to learning his name was to be for ever associated,for in that same year he became her confessor. It was he whocarried out or perhaps suggested her noble foundations of ChristsCollege (1505) and St. Johns (1511, after her decease), and he hadalready helped her to found the Divinity Professorships which bearher name at both Universities, becoming himself the first occupantof the Cambridge chair. For many years he was also Chancellorof his beloved Univ
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