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John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester

John Fisher 1459-1535 a much repaired portrait after Holbein's portrait of Fisher held in Windsor Castle 1528. Saint John Fisher (c.19 October 1469 – 22 June 1535) was an English Roman Catholic Bishop, Cardinal and Martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on 22 June in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and 6 July on the Anglican calendar of saints. Fisher was executed by order of King Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept him as Head of the Church of England. He is the only member of the College of Cardinals to have suffered martyrdom. In 1494 he resigned his benefice to become Proctor of the University of Cambridge, and three years later was appointed Master debater, about which date he became chaplain and confessor to Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of King Henry VII. On 5 July 1501, he received his doctorate in theology and ten days later was elected Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. Under Fisher's guidance, Lady Margaret founded St John's and Christ's Colleges at Cambridge, and a Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity at each of the two universities at Oxford and Cambridge. [Wiki]

John Fisher 1459-1535 a much repaired portrait after Holbein's portrait of Fisher held in Windsor Castle 1528.

1528 - 1528

Bought 1884, with Rev.F.O.White, London, from whom it was bought; exhibited C.A.S. 1884.

16th century