Abstract
John Aylmer (1520/21–94) was bishop of London from 1577 until his death. During Elizabeth's reign, this position was one of the most political in the Church of England and one that most historians, with the exception of John Strype (1821), believe that Aylmer was ill suited to. John Aylmer was born at Aylmer Hall in Tilney, Norfolk, younger brother to Sir Robert Aylmer, to whom their family estate was left. Henry Grey, third marquess of Dorset, and father to Lady Jane Grey, recognized a high level of intellectualism in John and helped him through his studies at Cambridge. Aylmer later attended Oxford University where he took a degree in divinity. In his early twenties he was made chaplain to Grey and appointed as tutor to Lady Jane Grey, also holding positions as the rector of Rodney Stoke and Stoke Gilford (1541) and as the vicar of Wellington (1543).
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