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Garfield (HARRY AUGUSTUS an American)

HARRY AUGUSTUS, an American educator and public official.

Born in 1863 in Ohio, the son of James Abram Garfield, twentieth President of the United States. After graduating from Williams College in 1885, he studied law at Columbia University and at Oxford, England. From 1888 to 1903, he Edward IV.; born in Bury St. Edmunds, practiced law in Cleveland, Ohio, and in Suffolk, England, in 1483. In 1520 he took the degrees of D. D. and LL. D. at Cambridge, where he became master of Trinity Hall. He passed at this time by the name of Dr. Stephens. Having become secretary to Wolsey and a favorite with the king, he was dispatched to Rome in 1528 to forward Henry VIII.'s divorce, and on his return was appointed secretary of state, and in succession Archdeacon of Norwich and Leicester, and Bishop of Winchester. He also went on various embassies to France and Germany. He supported the king in renouncing the authority of the Pope, but opposed the doctrines of the Reformation, and took an active part in the passing of the six articles and in the prosecution of Protestants. He was successful in contriving the fall of his opponent Cromwell, but failed to injure Catherine Parr, and fell into disfavor. During the reign of Edward he was imprisoned in the Fleet, deprived of his bishopric, and afterward imprisoned in the Tower from 1548-1553, but Mary restored him to his bishopric, and appointed him lord chancellor. He officiated at her coronation and marriage, and became one of her chief advisers. He took an active part in the persecutions at the beginning of the reign. He died in London, Nov. 12, 1555.