Edmund Scambler

Edmund Scambler (c. 1520 – 7 May 1594) was an English bishop.

The Right Reverend Edmund Scambler
Bishop of Norwich
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of Norwich
Installed	1585
Term ended	1594 (death)
Predecessor	Edmund Freke
Successor	William Redman
Other posts	Bishop of Peterborough (1561–1585)
Personal details
Born	c. 1520 Gressingham, Lancashire
Died	(1594-05-07)7 May 1594
Nationality	English
Denomination	Anglican
Alma mater	Peterhouse, Cambridge

Life

He was born at Gressingham, and was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, Queens' College, Cambridge and Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1542.[1][2][3]

Under Mary I of England he was pastor to a covert Protestant congregation in London.[4] He was a chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker.[5]

He became Bishop of Peterborough in 1561, and was a reviser of the Bishops' Bible.[3][6] He suspended Eusebius Pagit, then vicar of Lamport, in 1574.[7]

In 1585 he became Bishop of Norwich. He was responsible there for the heresy proceedings against Francis Kett.[8]

Notes

1. "Scambler, Edmund (SCMR541E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=53271
3. "Scambler, Edmund" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
4. Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1982), p. 61.
5. "Parker, Matthew" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
6. http://www.katapi.org.uk/BibleMSS/Ch11.htm
7. "Pagit, Eusebius" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
8. Dewey D. Wallace, Jr., From Eschatology to Arian Heresy: The Case of Francis Kett (d. 1589), The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 67, No. 4 (October 1974), pp. 459-473.

Church of England titles
Preceded by David Poole	Bishop of Peterborough 1561–1584	Succeeded by Richard Howland
Preceded by Edmund Freke	Bishop of Norwich 1585–1594	Succeeded by William Redman