Bonner
Bonner names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Bonner EDMUND, an English prelate of infamous notoriety
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDMUND, an English prelate of infamous notoriety , was born about 1495, of obscure parentage. He took a doctor's degree at Oxford, in 1525, and, attracting the notice of Cardinal Wolsey, received from him several offices in the church. On the death of Wolsey he acquired the favor of Henry VIII., who made him one of his chaplains, and sent him to Rome to advocate his divorce from Queen Catharine. In 1540 he was consecrated Bishop of London, but on the death of Henry ( 1547), having refused to take the oath of supremacy, he was deprived of his see and thrown into rrison. On the accession of Mary he was restored to his bishopric, and he distinguished himself during this reign by a persecution of the Protestants, 200 of whorn he was instrumental in bringing to the stake. After Elizabeth succeeded he remained unmolested until his refusal to take the oath of supremacy, on which he was committed to the Marshalsea (1560), where he remained a prisoner until his death in 1569. publisher, born near Londonderry, Ire-
Bonner ROBERT, an American land
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROBERT, an American land, April 28, 1824. He came to the United States in early youth, and learned the trade of a printer. In moved to New York, and, in 1851, pur- In 1844 he rechased the "Ledger," then an insignificant paper . By energy and talent he made it remarkably successful, adding to its reputation by securing the contributions of Fanny Fern, Edward Everett, Henry Ward Beecher, and other eminent persons. He became very wealthy, and gratified his taste for fast horses by purchasing the most celebrated trotters in and "Maud S." He made large gifts of the world. Among them were "Dexter" widely known for his many benefactions. money to Princeton University and was He died in New York City, July 6, 1899. covering for the head worn by women;
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The bare facts in Collier's 1921 sketches still hold: Edmund Bonner died a prisoner in the Marshalsea in 1569, and Robert Bonner died in New York on 6 July 1899. What has shifted is the tone. Collier's calls Bonner an English prelate of infamous notoriety who sent 200 Protestants to the stake, a figure and a reputation that descend from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs; modern historians treat the number as inflated and Bloody Bonner as a caricature, noting that he was an accomplished canon lawyer acting within a persecution directed from above, and that his deprivation came in 1549 under Edward VI rather than at once on Henry VIII's death in 1547. Robert Bonner's monument, the New York Ledger, did not long outlive him, folding early in the twentieth century, and the trotting horses he made famous, Dexter and Maud S., are now the concern of specialists rather than a mass public.
Written for this edition, 2026.