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• Blessed John Houghton —     Blessed John Houghton     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed John Houghton     Protomartyr of the persecution under Henry VIII, b. in Essex, 1487; d. at Tyburn, 4 May, 1535. He was educated at Cambridge, graduating LL.B. about 1497, and later… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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