Andrewes

Andrewes, Lancelot, Bishop of Winchester, was born in 1555. He received his education at Merchant Taylors' School and at Cambridge, and was ordained in 1580. He was made Vicar of St. Giles, Cripplegate, and chaplain to Queen Elizabeth, and then became Prebendary of St. Paul's, and of Southwell, and master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. James I. employed him to confute, in a work entitled Tortura Torti, the attacks of Bellarmine on royal supremacy. His reward was the Deanery of the Chapel Royal, and of Westminster, and presently he was appointed successively Bishop of Chichester, Ely, and Winchester. He was one of the translators of the Bible, being especially charged with the Pentateuch and part of the historical books. As a preacher he enjoyed a deservedly high reputation, and his devotional works and theological treatises still find appreciative readers. He died in 1626, and was buried in St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, where his monument and effigy may yet be seen.