On this day in Tudor history, 4th November 1551, theologian, royal chaplain, and scholar John Redman, the first Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, died of consumption.

Redman was one of Tudor England’s most brilliant and balanced minds, a man who sought to reconcile faith, scholarship, and conscience in an age of division.

He served both Henry VIII and Edward VI, and tried to tread a middle way, defending traditional Catholic ideas while embracing elements of reform…