, younger brother of the rev. Charles Fotherby, dean of Canterbury, was
, younger brother of the rev.
Charles Fotherby, dean of Canterbury, was born at Great
Grimsby, in Lincolnshise, in 1659, and was the son of
Martin Fotherby, esq. of that place. He was educated at
Trinity college, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow,
and proceeded to the degree of D. D. He was collated
by archbishop Whitgift in 1592 to the vicarage of Chiflet,
on the resignation of his brother Charles, and in 1594 to
the rectory of St. Mary-le-Bow, London. In 1596 he was
presented by queea Elizabeth to the eleventh prebend of
the church of Canterbury, and also to the rectory of Chartham, belonging to her by lapse. In 1601 he was collated
by archbishop Whitgift to the rectory of Adistwm. He
became afterwards chaplain to James I. by whom he was
made one of the first fellows of Chelsea college in 1610,
and was preferred by him to the bishopric of Sarum in
March 1618. He died in March 1619, and was buried in
the church of Allhallows, Lombard-street, London, where
there was a monument erected to his memory, but which
was destroyed by the great fire in 1666. The inscription,
however, -which represents him as a man of remarkable
merit, is preserved in “Antiqnitates Sarisburienses,
” printed
at Salisbury in Four Sermons, -whereunto is added, an answere
unto certaine objections of one unresolved, as concerning
the use of the Crosse in Baptism.
” He was also the author
of “Atheomastix,
” which was sent to the press before his
death, but not published till 1622.