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Lawrence Humphrey (or
Laurence Humfrey) (
1527? -
February 1,
1590) was an
English theologian, who was president of
Magdalen College, Oxford, and dean successively of Gloucester and Winchester
Biography
Humphrey was born at
Newport Pagnell.
He was elected demy of Magdalen College in 1546 and fellow in 1548. He graduated
BA in. 1549,
MA in 1552, and
BD and
DD in 1562. He was noted as one of the most promising pupils of
Pietro Martire Vermigli, and on
Mary's accession obtained leave from his college to travel abroad. He lived at
Basel,
Zürich,
Frankfort and
Geneva, making the acquaintance of the leading Swiss divines, whose ecclesiastical views he adopted. His leave of absence having expired in 1556, he ceased to be fellow of Magdalen.
He returned to England at
Elizabeth's accession, was appointed regius professor of divinity at Oxford in 1560, and was recommended by
Archbishop Parker and others for election as president of Magdalen. The fellows refused at first to elect so pronounced a reformer, but they yielded in 1561, and Humphrey gradually converted the college into a stronghold of
Puritanism.
In
1564 he and his friend
Thomas Sampson, dean of Christ Church, were called before Parker for refusing to wear the prescribed ecclesiastical vestments; and a prolonged struggle, the
vestments controversy, broke out, in which
Bullinger and other foreign theologians took part as well as most of the leading divines in England. In spite of Bullinger's advice, Humphrey refused to conform; and Parker wished to deprive him as well as Sampson. But the presidency of Magdalen was elective and the visitor of the college wasn't Parker but the
bishop of Winchester; and Humphrey escaped with temporary retirement. Parker, in fact, wasn't supported by the council; in
1566 Humphrey was selected to preach at St Paul's Cross, and was allowed to do so without the vestments.
In the same year he took a prominent part in the ceremonies connected with Elizabeth's visit to Oxford. On this occasion he wore his doctor's gown and habit, which the queen told him became him very well; and his resistance now began to weaken. He yielded on the point before 1571 when he was made dean of Gloucester. In 1578 he was one of the divines selected to attend a diet at Schmalkalde to discuss the project of a theological accommodation between the
Lutheran and
Reformed churches; and in 1580 he was made
dean of Winchester. In 1585 he was persuaded by his bishop, Cooper, to restore the use of
surplices in Magdalen College chapel. He died on the 1st of February 1590 and was buried in the college chapel, where there's a mural monument to his memory; a portrait is in Magdalen College school.
Humphrey was a voluminous writer on theological and other subjects. At Parker's desire he wrote a life of his friend and patron
Bishop Jewel, which was published in 1573 and was also prefixed to the edition of Jewel's works issued in 1600. One of his books against the
Jesuits was included in vol. iii. of the
Doctrina Jesuitarum per van os authores, published at
La Rochelle (6 vols, 1585-1586).
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