Robert Aldrich (bishop)
Robert Aldrich (died March
1555), or
Aldridge,
Bishop of Carlisle in the reigns of
Henry VIII,
Edward VI and Mary, was born at
Burnham, Buckinghamshire, educated at
Eton and
Cambridge; after receiving various preferments was consecrated bishop of Carlisle,
July 18,
1537. He became in 1534 register of the order of the Garter, in the room of Dr.
Sydenore, archdeacon of
Totnes. He was praised by
Erasmus, while he was a fellow of
King's College, as a young man of eloquence; and
Leland, the antiquary, who was his friend, has celebrated him in a copy of Latin verses. He was both master and provost of Eton; but in 1529 he retired to
Oxford and was incorporated B.D. and afterwards proceeded D.D. in that university. He died in 1555 at
Horn Castle in
Lincolnshire.
His principal works are the following.
Epistola ad Gwielmum HormannumEpigrammata variaSeveral Resolutions concerning the SacramentsAnswers to certain Queries concerning the Abuses of the Mass
