Education
A native of Staffordshire, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts 11 January 1556 and Master of Arts
A native of Staffordshire, he was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor of Arts 11 January 1556 and Master of Arts
10 February 1559. He was elected Lady Margaret professor on 24 October 1565, and later in the same year took both the degrees in divinity. He resigned his professorship in 1594. Anthony Wood said that Cradock "addicted himself much to chymistry" and "spent many years in obtaining the Elixir, alias the Philosophers stone, and was accounted one of the number of those whom we now call Rosycrucians".