Hugh Latimer

While carrying out his official duties he continued with theological studies and received the Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1524. A recent convert to the new teachings Thomas Bilney heard his disputation and later came to him to give his confession. Life
Latimer was born into a family of farmers in Thurcaston Leicestershire.

In 1555 under Queen Mary he was burnt at the stake becoming one of the three Oxford Martyrs of Anglicanism.  1487 – 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College Cambridge and Bishop of Worcester before the Reformation and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. Hugh Latimer (c.