Peter Baro

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Peter Baro (1534-1599) was a Tudor era English academic and Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge from 1574. He feuded with Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift, who had adopted the Calvinistic Lambeth Articles. Baro, along with John Overall, Lancelot Andrews, Samuel Harsnett, and others, had rejected these articles. This opposition cost Baro his chair, as he failed to be re-elected in 1596.

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• C. S. Knighton, ‘Baro, Peter (1534–1599)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008