Martin Fotherby (c. 1560–1620) was an English clergyman, who becameBishop of Salisbury.

He was born inGrimsby, and studied at theUniversity of Cambridge, where he became a Fellow ofTrinity College.^[1][2]

He was rector ofSt Mary-le-Bow,^[3] and then in 1596 a prebendary ofCanterbury Cathedral. He became Bishop of Salisbury in 1618 and died in London on 11 March 1620 and was buried two days later inAll Hallows, Lombard Street.^[4]His brotherCharles Fotherby wasArchdeacon of Canterbury (1595–1615) andDean of Canterbury (1615–1619).

HisAtheomastix; clearing foure truthes, against atheists and infidels was published posthumously in 1622, a work written againstatheism. According to theCambridge History of English and American Literature, (1907–21), Volume VII, Fotherby "relied chiefly onSt. Thomas Aquinas in his demonstration of the being of God, and maintained that there is a "natural prenotion" that there is a God."^[5] This work was the source of many of the poetic quotations occurring inThe Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles (1624), byJohn Smith of Jamestown.^[6][7]

• Philip L. Barbour,Captain John Smith and the Bishop of Sarum. Huntington Library Quarterly, 26 (1962), 11-29.ISSN 0018-7895.

• 1560 births
• Bishops of Salisbury
• Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
• 1620 deaths
• People from Grimsby
• English religious writers
• 16th-century English writers
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• 16th-century English Anglican priests
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