Venn: Matric. pens, from St John's, Michs. 1566. Of Derbyshire. (S. of George, acc. to Vis. of Shrops., 1623.) Migr. to Oxford; B.A. 1572; M.A. 1575. D.D. (Paris). Fellow of Balliol College, 1572. Preb. of Lichfield, 1578. Principal of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, 1579-81. Converted to Romanism. Imprisoned in the Tower, 1587; in Wisbech Castle, 1593. Died c. 1625. (Al. Oxon.; D.N.B.)