Everything about John Rainolds totally explained
John Rainolds (or
Reynolds) (
1549 -
May 21,
1607),
English divine, was born about
Michaelmas 1549 at Pinhoe, near
Exeter.
He was educated at
Merton and
Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford, becoming a fellow of the latter in 1568. In 1572-73 he was appointed reader in
Greek, and his lectures on
Aristotle's
Rhetoric laid the sure basis of his fame. He resigned the office in 1578 and his fellowship in 1586, through inability to agree with the president
William Cole, and became a tutor at
Queen's College.
By this time he'd acquired a considerable reputation as a disputant on the Puritan side, and the story goes that
Elizabeth I visiting the university in 1592 "schooled him for his obstinate preciseness, willing him to follow her laws, and not run before them."
In 1593 he was made dean of
Lincoln. The fellows of
Corpus were anxious to replace Cole by Rainolds, and change was effected, Rainolds being elected president in December
1598.
The chief events of his subsequent career were his share in the
Hampton Court Conference, where he was the most prominent representative of the
Puritan party and received a good deal of favour from
the king, and in the
Authorized Version of the Bible. Of this project he was initiator, and himself worked with the company who undertook the translation of
the Prophets. He died of
consumption on the 21st of May 1607, leaving a great reputation for scholarship and high character.
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