George Acworth

George Acworth LL.D. (1534 – 1578?) was an English Protestant divine and civilian of the 16th century.

During the reign of Queen Mary, he travelled in France and Italy, where he studied civil law. In 1560, he was public orator at Cambridge; and, in the following year, created doctor of laws.

In 1562, he was admitted an advocate in the Arches court; and afterwards lived in the family of archbishop Parker, who gave him a prebend, probably that of Southwell. In 1567, he was vicar-general to Robert Horne, bishop of Winchester; and, in 1575, the archbishop of Canterbury permitted him to hold the rectory of Ellington,dn alias Wroughton, in the Diocese of Sarum, with any benefice.

In 1576, he was appointed master of the faculties, and judge of the prerogative court, in Ireland, after he had been turned out of all the situations he held in England, on account of his dissolute conduct. When he died is not known for certain.

Acworth wrote in his better days: "Orationem encomiasticam in restitutione Buceri et Fagii," printed in "Hist. Buceri", Argentor, 1562; the preface to Book II of Bucer's works, fol. Basil, 1577; "De visibili Romanarchia, contra Nic. Sanderi Monarchiam," London, 1622. This was written while he lived with archbishop Parker, and probably at his instigation. At one time, he enjoyed the confidence of this great and good prelate, and assisted him in his "Antiquitates Britannicae".

References

#Chalmers, A. (1812-17). "The general biographical dictionary" 32 v.

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