John Bernard

John Bernard (died 1554) was an English academic and religious author. He is known for a Latin devotional work Oratio Pia that was published some 14 years after his death, and then translated into English.

Life Bernard was from Yorkshire, and is thought to have been from the West Riding. He was a student at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar in 1541. He proceeded B.A. in 1543–4. He became Trotter's priest there about 1544, and a Fellow shortly afterwards that year. He commenced M.A. in 1547.

Bernard was bursar of his college from 1550 to 1552. At the beginning of the reign of Mary I of England, he retained his fellowship, he retained his fellowship, despite reforming and evangelical Protestant views, and that year was licensed to preach. He died in 1554.

The book is considered an example of the Protestant belles lettres of the period, comparable with works of the Huguenot minister Jean de L'Espine, and of Jeremias Bastingius from Middelburg.

Family Bernard was the brother of Thomas Bernard (died 1582) and uncle of Daniel Bernard.