Editing Edmund Bonner (section)

==Early life==
Bonner was the son of Elizabeth Frodsham, who was married to Edmund Bonner, a [[Sawyer (occupation)|sawyer]] of [[Hanley, Worcestershire|Hanley]], Worcestershire. [[John Strype]] printed an account, with many circumstantial details, stating that Bonner was the natural son of George Savage (and therefore grandson of [[John Savage (soldier)|Sir John Savage]] and great-nephew of [[Thomas Savage (bishop)|Thomas Savage]] who had also served as [[Bishop of London]], before he became [[Archbishop of York]]), [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|rector]] of [[Davenham]], Cheshire, and that his mother married Bonner only after the future bishop's birth.<ref>J. Strype, ''Ecclesiastical Memorials Relating Chiefly to Religion, and the Reformation of it'' (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1822), Vol. III part 1, [https://archive.org/details/ecclesiasticalm06strygoog/page/n194 pp. 172-73] (Internet Archive).</ref> This account was disputed by Strype's contemporary, Sir Edmund Lechmere, who asserted that Bonner was of legitimate birth.<ref>J. Strype, ''Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion'' New Edition (Clarendon Press, Oxford 1824), Vol. I part 2, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89097240402;view=1up;seq=318 p. 300] (Hathi Trust).</ref>{{sfn|Pollard|1911|p=210}}

He was educated at Broadgates Hall, now [[Pembroke College, Oxford]], graduating bachelor of civil and canon law in June 1519. He was ordained about the same time and admitted doctor of civil law (DCL) in 1525.<ref>'Bonner (Bonar), Edmund', in J. Foster, ''Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714'' (Oxford 1891), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/alumni-oxon/1500-1714/pp142-170 at pp. 142-70] (British History Online).</ref>{{sfn|Pollard|1911|p=210}}