Person:John Still (3)

STILL (John), Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1543(?)-1608.

John Still was born at Grantham, England in about 1543. He was educated at Christ Collage, Cambridge, England. He was a profesor of Divinity at Cambridge in 1750, He became pebendary of Westminster, 1573 and Master of St. John's Collage in 1574 and of Trinity. Collage in 1577. In March of 1577 he became Archdeacon of Sudbury, and was made Bishop of Bath and Wells in Feb. 1593. He died on 26 Feb. 1608.

He is believed to have authored of Gammer Gurton's Needle which was produced in 1566 and printed in 1575. This appears to include a copy of the first British drinking song published.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Sharp, Robert Farquharson. A dictionary of English authors, biographical and bibliographical: Being a compendious account of the lives and writings of upwords of 800 British and american writers fromthe yesr 1400 to the present time. (London, England: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1904)
   270, 1904.
2.   Bell, Robert. Songs from the Dramtists. (1904)
   26-29.
3. ↑ Stephen, Leslie, ed, and Sidney, ed Lee. Dictionary of National Biography. (London: Smith, Elder, 1885-1900)
   18:1257.

   'STILL, JOHN (1543?-1608), bishop of Bath and Wells, and reputed author of 'Gammer Gurton's Needle,' was only son of William Still of Grantham, where he was born about 1543.'

4. ↑ Chalmers, Alexander. The general biographical dictionary: containing an historical and critical account of the lives and writings of the most eminent persons in every nation; particulary the British and Irish; from the earliest accounts to the present time. (London: J. Nichols, 1812)
   28:414.

   'STILL (John), bishop of Bath and Wells, was born in 1543, and was the son of William Still, of Grantham in Lincolnshire.'

5. ↑ Muskett, Joseph James. Suffolk manorial families : being the county visitations and other pedigrees. (Exeter: William Pollard, 1900)
   1:55.