Bartholomew Dodington

Bartholomew Dodington was buried in the north transept of Westminster Abbey. Unfortunately his gravestone is no longer readable but William Camden, in his guide to the Abbey published in 1600, recorded this inscription:

"To God, best and gracious, and in sacred memory. In the sure hope of resurrection here lies Bartholomew Dodington, nourished from boyhood on the finest arts; he held for twenty years with the greatest distinction the office of Regius Professor of Greek in the university of Cambridge: a man not only of excellent scholarship, but also of a most holy character, of singular integrity & incomparable modesty. In his sixtieth year of salvation 1595, 22nd day of August, he rendered up his soul to God & left his friends to mourn his sad loss. Think not dead he who lives in Heaven".

He was born around 1536 and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. Later he was a Fellow of Trinity. When Elizabeth I visited Cambridge he made Latin and Greek orations for her. He then lived in a house in Westminster and died unmarried. The inscription had worn away by the time a later Abbey guidebook was published in 1683.