 John Woolton

John Woolton (or Wolton) (1535?–1594) served as Bishop of Exeter in Devon, England, from 1579 to 1594.He was born at Whalley, Lancashire in about 1535, the son of John Woolton of Wigan, by his wife Isabella Nowell, a daughter of John Nowell of Read Hall near Whalley, and sister of Alexander Nowell (13 February 1602), Protestant theologian and Dean of St Paul's.