Robert Pink

Robert Pink D.D. (Pinck, Pincke, Pinke) (1573 – 2 November 1647) was an English clergyman and academic, a supporter of William Laud as Warden of New College, Oxford, and later a royalist imprisoned by Parliament.

Life Robert Pink was the eldest son of Henry Pink of Kempshott in the parish of Winslade, Hampshire, by his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Page of Sevington, and was baptised on 1 March 1573. He was admitted to Winchester College in 1588, and matriculated at New College, Oxford, on 14 June 1594, aged 19. He was elected Fellow in 1596, graduated BA on 27 April 1598, and MA on 21 January 1602.

In 1610, Pink became proctor, and in 1612 Bachelor of Medicine. In 1617, he was elected Warden of New College, and two years later, 26 June 1619, was admitted to the degrees of BD and DD From 1620, he was rector of Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, and perhaps of Colerne, Wiltshire, in 1645. In 1639, Pink assisted the Vice-Chancellor in suppressing superfluous alehouses.