James Haddon

James Haddon (fl. 1556) was an English reforming divine.

Life

Haddon, brother of Walter Haddon and half-brother of Francis Saunders,^[1] proceeded B.A. in 1541 and M.A. in 1544 at Cambridge, and was one of the original fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1546. In March 1550-1 he became a licensed preacher, and about the same time was chaplain to the Duke of Suffolk, and tutor to his daughter, Lady Jane Grey. Details of the household of his patron are in his letters to Heinrich Bullinger.^[2]

In August 1552 Haddon was given a prebend in Westminster Abbey, and in October became dean of Exeter, though the patent was not signed till 8 January in the following year. He left Suffolk's household with regret. He preached before the court in Lent 1553, when, as John Knox relates, "he most learnedly opened the causes of the bypast plagues, affirming that worse were to follow unless repentance should shortly be found".^[2]

On the accession of Mary I he was one of the six champions in the convocation of October 1553 who maintained the cause of the Reformation in five days' disputation on the real presence. In the long contest Haddon took on Thomas Watson.^[2]

In 1554 Haddon left England, with a letter to Bullinger from the imprisoned John Hooper, in which Hooper highly commended him. He went, however, not to Zurich, but to Strasbourg, and forwarded Hooper's letter to Bullinger. To Bullinger he continued to write from Strasburg for two or three years down to March 1556. He complains of the poverty to which he was reduced in exile.^[2]

The date of Haddon's death is unknown. His epitaph was written by his brother Walter. His name is omitted by Le Neve in the list of deans of Exeter, and he may perhaps never have entered on the dignity. Among manuscripts preserved Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is a letter De Matrimonio addressed to him, probably by Martin Bucer.^[2]

References

↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/saunders-francis-151314-85
1 2 3 4 5 Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Haddon, James". Dictionary of National Biography. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). "Haddon, James". Dictionary of National Biography. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Deans of Exeter

High Medieval	Serlo Roger de Wynkleigh William de Stanwey Roger de Toriz John Noble John Pycot Andrew de Kilkenny

Late Medieval	Henry de Somerset Thomas de Lechlade Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio Richard de Coleton Richard de Braylegh Reginald de Bugwell Robert Sumpter Thomas Walkyngton Ralph Tregrision Stephen Payn John Cobethorn John Hals Henry Webber Peter Courtenay Lionel Woodville John Arundel

Early modern	Edward Willoughby Thomas Hobbes John Vesey Richard Pace Reginald Pole Simon Haynes James Haddon Thomas Reynolds Gregory Dodds George Carew Stephen Townesend Matthew Sutcliffe William Peterson Seth Ward Edward Young George Cary The Hon Richard Annesley William Wake Lancelot Blackburne Edward Trelawney John Gilbert Alured Clarke William Holmes Charles Lyttleton Jeremiah Milles William Buller Charles Harward

Late modern	Charles Talbot George Gordon John Garnett Whittington Landon Thomas Lowe Charles Ellicott The Viscount Midleton Archibald Boyd Benjamin Cowie Alfred Earle Henry Gamble Walter Matthews Spencer Carpenter Alexander Wallace Marcus Knight Clifford Chapman Richard Eyre Keith Jones Jonathan Meyrick Jonathan Draper

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