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VENN: B.A. 1532-3. B. in Kent, c. 1514. M.A. 1535; B.D. 1547. Fellow of QUEENS', 1533. Ord. priest (Lincoln) June 10, 1536. Chaplain to Archbishop Cranmer. R. of St Michael, Crooked Lane, 1543-51. R. of Lavant, Sussex, 1545. Canon of Canterbury, 1546. V. of Ashford, Kent, 1549-50. Bishop of Rochester, 1550-1. Bishop of Winchester, 1551-3. Retired to Strassburg under Queen Mary. Scholar and mathematician. Author, ecclesiastical. Died at Strassburg, Aug. 1556. (Cooper, I. 154; D.N.B.)
SEE OXFORD DNB: Ponet, John (c.15141556), bishop of Winchester and religious controversialist.