John Bainbridge

son of Rob. Bainbr. by Anne his wife daugh. of Rich. Everard of Shenton in Leycestershire, was born at Ashby de la Zouch in the same County, educated in Emanuel Coll. under the tutelage of his Kinsman Dr. Joseph Hall, took the degrees in Arts, studied Physick, retired into his own Country, practised there and taught a Grammar school. At length publishing

An astronomical description of the late Comet from 18 of Nov. 1618, to the 16 of Dec. following, Lond. 1619. qu. he became acquainted with Sir Hen. Savile, who founding an Astronomy-lecture in this University in the year wherein the said book was printed, preferred our Author Bainbridge thereunto. Whereupon going to Oxon, he was entred a Master-Commoner of Merton Coll. was incorporated Doctor of Physick as he had stood at Cambridge, lived in the said Coll. for some years, (the society of which house confer’d on him the superior Readers place of Lynacres lecture 1635) and afterwards in an house opposite to their Church. He also published,

Procli sphaera. Ptolomaei de hypothesibus planetarum liber singularis, &c. Lond. 1620. qu.

Ptolemaei canon regnorum. printed with the former. Both which were collated with Mss, put into latine, and illustrated with figures by the said Dr. Bainbridge, who also wrot,

Canicularia: being a treatise of the Dog-star, and of the canicular days. Oxon. 1648. oct. published by Joh. Greaves, together with a demonstration of the Heliacal rising of Sirius, or the Dog-star for the parallel of Lower Aegypt. At length after he had been Savilian Professor of Astronomy about 24 years in this University, and superior Reader of Lynacres lecture in Mert. Coll. about 8 years, surrendred up his last breath in his house near the said Coll. on the third day of Nov. in sixteen hundred forty and three: whereupon his body being conveyed thence to the public schools,1643. rested there for some time. Afterwards an Oration being delivered before the several degrees that were then left in the University, in praise of the defunct and his learning, it was accompanied by them to Mert. Coll. Church, and there solemnly deposited on the left side of Briggs his grave near to the high Altar. The Epitaph on his grave-stone, which was made by Mr. Greaves before mention’d, his successor in the Astronomy lecture, you may read in Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxon. lib. 2. p. 89. b. 90. a. Many of his writings came after his death into the hands of the said Greaves, besides what is before mention’d, but whether worthy of the press, I cannot tell. Among them was his Discourse of the Periodus Sothiaca, which the said Greaves was about to perfect and publish, an. 1644.