Background
The son of Edward Aglionby and Elizabeth Musgrave, of Crookdayke, he was admitted as a student to Queen"s College, Oxford in 1583.
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John Aglionby
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The Queen"s College.
Career
He went into orders and became an eloquent preacher. He travelled abroad, where he formed an acquaintance with cardinal Bellarmine. On his return was made chaplain to Elizabeth, and took his degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1600.
He took a considerable share in the translation of the New Testament ordered by king James I, to whom he was also chaplain.
And his name occurs among those of other Oxford divines, who were to translate the Gospels, Acts, and Apocalypse. Doctor Aglionby died at Islip, 6 February
1609/10, aged 43. He was deeply read in the fathers, and also a distinguished scholar and critic.
