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Lambert, Robert

  • GB-1859-SJAC-PN52
  • Person
  • 1677-1735

Son of Joseph Lambert, born in 1677 in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. He was admitted to St John's College as a pensioner in 1693, achieving his BA in 1696/7, his MA in 1700, and being appointed to a fellowship in 1699. He was ordained as a priest on 6 January 1705/6, and achieved his BD in 1707, his DD in 1718, and was the Lady Margaret preacher for the College 1722-1734. He succeeded Robert Jenkin as Master in 1727; a position he retained until his death on 25 January 1734/5. He was also Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge 1727-8, and again 1729-30.

Lapidge, Edward

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN120
  • Person
  • 1779-1860

Edward Lapidge was an architect, designer and surveyor based in London. He was the eldest son of Samuel Lapidge, a former assistant to Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown and the Chief Gardener at Hampton Court Palace. In 1824 Edward was appointed Surveyor to the County of Surrey. Between 1825 and 1828 he designed and built Kingston Bridge in London. Lapidge submitted designs that were not adopted for new buildings at King’s College in 1823 and the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1835. In October 1830, Lapidge produced a plan for the new Cambridge Botanical Gardens, but legal issues meant that the work was delayed and his designs were never carried out in full. Two years later, he submitted plans for the landscaping of the grounds around New Court at St John’s College, Cambridge. Lapidge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1838. He died in February 1860.

Leo X, Pope

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN208
  • Person
  • 1475-1521

Lever, Thomas

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN137
  • Person
  • 1521-1577

Thomas Lever was an English Protestant reformer and Marian exile, one of the founders of the Puritan tendancy in the Church of England. He was from Little Lever, Lancashire. Lever graduated B.A. from St John's in 1541/2 and was elected to the Fellowship in 1543. From 1547, he along with Roger Hutchinson led the discussion of the mass and transubstantiation in the College. Lever was Master of the College from 1551-1553.

Lloyd, John

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN67
  • Person
  • c.1698-1743

Adm. sizar to St. John's College in 1706; B.A. 1709-1710, M.A. 1713. Vicar of St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, 1715-1743. Brother of Richard Lloyd, headmaster of Shrewsbury School.

Lloyd, Richard

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN68
  • Person
  • c.1661-1733

Adm. sizar to St. John's College in 1679. B.A. 1682-1683; M.A. 1686. Fellow 1685-1692. Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, 1687-1722. Prebend of Hereford, 1708-1733.

Lloyd, Roderick

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN48
  • Person

Fifth son of Hugh Lloyd (1546–1601), Welsh headmaster of Winchester College. Admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 5 December 1684, but does not appear to have been called to the Bar.

Longforth, William

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN124
  • Person
  • fl.1514-1530

William Longforth was Fellow and President of St. John’s College, and Vicar of Ospringe in Kent from September 1527. He also appears to have held positions as Vicar of St. James’s Church, Isle of Grain, Kent, between 1528 and 1530, and Vicar of St. Mary’s Church in Gillingham, Kent, from 1530. Prior to his ordination, Longforth was a student at Cambridge, graduating B.A. 1514-15; MA 1518. He died sometime in or during the years soon after 1530.

Longworth, Richard

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN143
  • Person
  • d. 1579

Richard Longworth matriculated as a pensioner in 1549. He graduated B.A. in 1553, M.A. in 1556, B.D. in 1563 and D.D. in 1567. Longworth was a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1553-1557 and a fellow of St John's from 1559. He was elected to the Mastership of St John's in 1564 but was deprived of the position by College's Visitor, the Bishop of Ely (Richard Cox) in 1569. Longworth was an enthusiastic Protestant and under his mastership the College had become a Protestant force in the university. Under Longworth, the Master and others refused to wear the surplice in chapel and Longworth was summoned to London to explain himself. The Visitor was called on to intervene as a result of internal feuding and dissension within the College.

Lovell, Sir Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN181
  • Person
  • c1449-1524

Son of Ralph Lovell of Beachamwell, Norfolk. Studied Law at Lincoln's Inn and practised in Norfolk. Joined revolt against Richard III in 1483. In 1485 he served as Speaker of the House of Commons in Henry VII's first Parliament, and in the same year was made Treasurer of the King's Chamber and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He was a leading councillor of both Henry VII and Henry VIII. He fought for Henry VII and the Battle of Stoke Field (1487), in France (1492), and in putting down the Cornish Rebellion (1497). In Henry VIII's wars of 1511-1514 he supervised the procurement of artillery and the fortification of Calais. Other offices held included: Treasurer of the King's Household (1503); Lieutenant of the Tower of London (1513), and Steward of the Universities of Oxford (1507) and Cambridge (1509).

Lupton, Roger

  • GB-1859-SJCA-PN162
  • Person
  • 1456-1539/40

Roger Lupton was an English lawyer, Provost of Eton College, and chaplain to both Henry VII and Henry VIII of England. He was born in Sedbergh, Yorkshire and studied at Cambridge University. He was elected Fellow and Provost of Eton College in 1503/4, a position he retained until 1535. Lupton financed the foundation of Sedbergh School from 1525 and in 1527, established six scholarships at St. John’s College, Cambridge, to be awarded to students of Sedbergh School. He was an executor of Henry VII’s will. After his death in 1539/40, Lupton was buried at Eton College, in a side chapel commissioned by him.

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