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HETON, MARTIN, son of George Heton, Heton Hall, Dean, Lancashire, and Joanna, dau. of Sir Martin Bowes, Kt, Master Worker of the Mint, Lord Mayor of London, goldsmith; b. 1552; adm.; QS in 1567; a copy of congratulatory verses to Queen Elizabeth, written by him in 1569, is printed in The Trifler 7 May 1817 (but assigning him the incorrect Christian name Matthew); elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1571, Westminster Student; BA 1574; MA 1578 (incorp. Cambridge 1581); BD 1583; DD 1585; ordained; Canon of Christ Church Dec 1582 – res by 19 Dec 1589; Vice-Chancellor, Oxford Univ. 1585; Dean of Winchester 20 Mar 1588/9 – Feb 1600; incumbent, Houghton, Hampshire 23 Sep 1590; consecrated Bishop of Ely 3 Feb 1598/9, having accepted the post on condition of alienating to the Crown the richest manors of the see; his able and learned sermons won the praise of James I, who declared that while “fat men were wont to make lean sermons, his were not lean, but larded with much good learning”; m.; d. 14 Jul 1609. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.