William Juxon

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William Juxon (1582–1663) was Archbishop of Canterbury from the Restoration in 1660. He was educated at the prebendal school in Chichester and then the Merchant Taylors' School in London (1595). He studied law at St John's College, Oxford, (1598; BCL 1604; fellow; DCL 1622). He became President of St John's in 1621 and vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1626/7 and 1627/8.[1] He was at St John's at the same time as William Laud, Thomas Turner and Jonas Owyn.

Juxon was instituted as Dean of Worcester in 1628. He then held a series of appointments at Court, becoming Bishop of London in 1633 and lord treasurer of England from 1636 until 1641. He attended Charles I on the scaffold and then lived in retirement until the Restoration when he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.[1]

He gave £500 in his will to rebuild the Chapter Library at Canterbury, as is recorded by his former pupil Jonas Owyn:

Shelfmark W/A-2-11/12/13
Holie Bible : faithfully translated into English ... by the English College of Doway.
Douai: 1610.
Inscription on front free endpaper: Water Willoughby. Rich: Pell Cler.
Inscription on front free endpaper: Rushington. Jonas Owyn.
MS ex-dono on f.2 of W/A-2-11 and on title page of W/A-2-13: Ex dono Jonae Owyn LL.B. Coll. Scti Joan. Bapt. Oxon. Olim Decemviri Nunc Rectoris de Wooton & Vicarij de Sibertswold cum Colred. A. Dni 1668.
MS note in Latin on second free endpaper by Rev. Jonas Owyn, recording Archbishop William Juxon's career and his gift dated 1662 to rebuild the Library.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 Brian Quintrell, ‘Juxon, William (bap. 1582, d. 1663)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [1], accessed 1 Jan 2013