Robert Glover (martyr)

Robert Glover (martyr)

Robert Glover (?-1555) was an English protestant martyr

Educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He gained in BA in 1538, MA in 1541, and was a fellow until 1543. He married a niece of Hugh Latimer.

He was burnt to death at Coventry for heresy on the 20th of September, 1555. ["Robert Glover, scholar of King's in 1533; burnt to death at Coventry on the 20th of September, 1555". Creasy, "Memoirs", p. 67.]

He had been arrested earlier that year. [Susan Wabuda, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10832 ‘Glover, Robert (d. 1555)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 8 Sept 2008]

Notes

References

*Creasy, E. S., "Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton College", R. Bentley, 1850.


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