James Haddon (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1556) was an English reforming divine.

Life

Haddon, brother of

Walter Haddon Walter Haddon LL.D. (1515–1572) was an English civil lawyer, much involved in church and university affairs under Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Elizabeth I. He was a University of Cambridge humanist and reformer, and was highly reputed in his time ...

and half-brother of Francis Saunders, proceeded B.A. in 1541 and M.A. in 1544 at Cambridge, and was one of the original fellows of

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, 1546. In March 1550-1 he became a licensed preacher, and about the same time was chaplain to the

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, and tutor to his daughter,

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. Details of the household of his patron are in his letters to

Heinrich Bullinger Heinrich Bullinger (18 July 1504 – 17 September 1575) was a Swiss Reformer and theologian, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Church of Zürich and a pastor at the Grossmünster. One of the most important leaders of the Swiss Re ...

.H. Robinson (ed.), ''The Zurich Letters: Original Letters Relative to the English Reformation'' Vol. 3 Part 1, Parker Society (Cambridge University Press, 1846), Letters CXXVIII-CXL
pp. 279-302
(Google). In August 1552 Haddon was given a

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, and in October became

dean of Exeter The Dean of Exeter is the head of the Chapter of Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Exeter, England. The chapter was established by William Briwere, Bishop of Exeter (1224–44) who set up the offices of dean and chancellor of Exeter Cathedral ...

, though the patent was not signed until 8 January in the following year. He left Suffolk's household with regret. He preached before the court in Lent 1553, when, as

John Knox John Knox ( gd, Iain Cnocc) (born – 24 November 1572) was a Scottish minister, Reformed theologian, and writer who was a leader of the country's Reformation. He was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Born in Giffordgat ...

relates, "he most learnedly opened the causes of the bypast plagues, affirming that worse were to follow unless repentance should shortly be found". On the accession of

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he was one of the six champions in the convocation of October 1553 who maintained the cause of the Reformation in five days' disputation on the

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. In the long contest Haddon took on Thomas Watson. In 1554 Haddon left England with a letter to Bullinger from the imprisoned John Hooper, in which Hooper highly commended him. He went, however, not to Zurich, but to

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, and forwarded Hooper's letter to Bullinger. To Bullinger he continued to write from Strasburg for two or three years down to March 1556. He complains of the poverty to which he was reduced in exile. The date of Haddon's death is unknown. His epitaph was written by his brother Walter. His name is omitted by

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in the list of Deans of Exeter, and he may perhaps never have entered upon that dignity. Among manuscripts preserved at

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, is a letter ''De Matrimonio'' addressed to him, probably by

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