George Bullock (professor) explained

George Bullock ( – 1572) was an English Roman Catholic theologian.

Life

He graduated as a Bachelor of Arts at St John's College, Cambridge, in 1538, becoming a fellow. In the reign of Edward VI he spent time in France, at Nevers Abbey. He was Master of St John's College, from 12 May 1554 to 20 July 1559.^{[1] [2]}

He became Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity in 1556 and graduated Doctor of Divinity in 1557. He was appointed vicar of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in 1556, and later the same year rector of Great Munden. On the accession of Elizabeth I he was deprived of all his positions, since he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy.^[1]

He went to Antwerp as a theology lecturer, and died there in October or November 1572.^[3] He published Oeconomia concordantiarum scripturae sacrae.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Bullock, George . Thompson . Cooper. 7.
2. The colleges and halls: St. John's', A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3: The City and University of Cambridge (1959), pp. 437-450. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66654 Date accessed: 12 June 2014
3. Richard Rex, ‘Bullock, George (1520/21–1572)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 14 June 2009