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==Life== Bainbridge was born at [[Ashby-de-la-Zouch]], in [[Leicestershire]] to Robert and Anne (née Everard) Bainbridge.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |last=Hockey |first=Thomas |date=2009 |publisher=[[Springer Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 |access-date=22 August 2012 |url=http://www.springerreference.com/docs/html/chapterdbid/58104.html}}</ref> He attended the Free Grammar School in Ashby-de-la-Zouch and then became a student at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge|Emmanuel College]], [[Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester : Vol. 3, Part 2. | last=Nichols | first=John|date=1804 |url=http://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15407coll6/id/2126}} Note: Nichols mistakenly says John Bainbridge's mother's name is Alice.</ref> He returned to Ashby where he practiced as a [[physician]] for some years, kept a school and studied [[astronomy]]. Having been removed to London, he was admitted (6 November 1618) a licentiate of the college of physicians, and was noticed due to a publication concerning the [[comet]] of 1618. In 1618, he became a member of the Puritan group of scholars known as the Gresham Circle. In 1619, Sir [[Henry Savile (Bible translator)]] (1549–1622) elected him as the first [[Savilian chair of astronomy|Savilian Professor of Astronomy]] at [[Oxford University]].<ref>Thomas Hockey, Katherine Bracher, Marvin Bolt, Virginia Trimble, Richard Jarrell, JoAnn Palmeri, Jordan D. Marché, Thomas Williams, F. Jamil Ragep. "Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers", Springer. p. 85</ref> Bainbridge was incorporated of [[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]] and became, in 1631 and 1635 respectively, junior and senior reader of [[Thomas Linacre|Linacre]]'s lectures. Bainbridge was a [[puritan]].<ref>David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers (1986). "God and Nature", p. 201.</ref> He died at [[Oxford]] on 3 November 1643. He was a friend of [[Christopher Heydon]], the writer on astrology; and also of [[John Greaves]], his successor to both the Savilian chair and Linacre's lectures.<ref>{{cite book |title=Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves |last=Birch |first=Thomas |date=1737 |publisher=J. Brindley and C. Corbett |location=London |page=xii |url=https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouswo13unkngoog |access-date=6 May 2011}}</ref>
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