Robert Glover (died 1555) was an English Protestant martyr who was burnt at Coventry in September 1555.Susan Wabuda,
‘Glover, Robert (d. 1555)’

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, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 8 September 2008 Glover was born at Mancetter, Warwickshire, and educated at

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and

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. Under Henry VIII he became attracted to Protestant views. He gained in BA in 1538, MA in 1541, and was a fellow until 1543. He married a niece of

Hugh Latimer Hugh Latimer ( – 16 October 1555) was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and Bishop of Worcester during the Reformation, and later Church of England chaplain to King Edward VI. In 1555 under the Catholic Queen Mary I he was burned at the ...

. He was burnt to death at

Coventry Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centurie ...

for heresy on 20 September 1555. He had been arrested earlier that year. Glover is among twelve such martyrs from the reigns of Henry VIII and Mary I commemorated on a memorial in the city, who are known collectively as the

Coventry Martyrs The Coventry Martyrs were a disparate group of Lollardy, Lollard Christians executed for their beliefs in Coventry between 1512 and 1522 (seven men and two women) and in 1555 (three men). Eleven of them are commemorated by a monument, erected ...

.Munden, Alan (1997) ''The Coventry Martyrs'' (Coventry: a Coventry Archives publication).

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* Creasy, E. S., ''Memoirs of Eminent Etonians: With Notices of the Early History of Eton College'', R. Bentley, 1850. 1555 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of King's College, Cambridge 16th-century Protestant martyrs Year of birth unknown 16th-century English people People from Warwickshire People executed by the Kingdom of England by burning Executed English people Protestant martyrs of England {{England-reli-bio-stub