Rogers, John
John Rogers being burned at the stake, woodcut from John Foxe's The Book of Martyrs.
John Rogers
English religious reformer
Also known as: Thomas Matthew
John Rogers (born c. 1500, Aston, Staffordshire, England—died February 4, 1555, Smithfield, London) was a religious Reformer and the first Protestant martyr of the English queen Mary I’s reign. He was the editor of the English Bible published (1537) under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew. A graduate of the University of Cambridge (1526), he was made rector of Holy Trinity, Queenhithe, London, about 1532 and two years later became a chaplain to English merchants at Antwerp....