John Young (bishop of Rochester)

John Young (c. 1532 – 1605) was an English academic and bishop.

This article is about the Anglican bishop of Rochester. For the medieval suffragan bishop, see John Young (suffragan bishop in London). For the Episcopal bishop of Florida, see John F. Young.

John Young
Bishop of Rochester
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Rochester
Elected	1578
Term ended	1605 (death)
Predecessor	John Piers
Successor	William Barlow
Other posts	Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge (1567–1578)
Personal details
Born	c. 1532
Died	1605
Denomination	Anglican
Profession	Academic
Alma mater	University of Cambridge

Life

He was educated at Mercers' School in London, and graduated BA at the University of Cambridge in 1552.[1] He became a Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge in 1553, and Master there in 1567. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1569.[2]

He became Bishop of Rochester in 1578, employing Edmund Spenser as secretary for a short time early in his tenure. In The Shepheardes Calender Young appears as Roffy, which abbreviates Roffensis, alluding to his see.[2][3][4]

Notes

1. "Young, John (YN551J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. Concise Dictionary of National Biography
3. "Scholarly Resources / Biography | Spenser Online". english.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 January 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
4. A. C. Hamilton, The Spenser Encyclopedia (1997), p. 535.

Further reading

• Percy W. Long, Spenser and the Bishop of Rochester, PMLA, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1916), pp. 713–735.
• Alexander Corbin Judson (1935), A biographical sketch of John Young, bishop of Rochester, with emphasis on his relations with Edmund Spenser

Academic offices
Preceded by John Whitgift	Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge 1567–1578	Succeeded by William Fulke
Church of England titles
Preceded by John Piers	Bishop of Rochester 1578–1605	Succeeded by William Barlow