{{Short description|English publisher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|The title-page of the Great Bible; "{{lang|en-emodeng|Prynted by Rychard Grafton & Edward Whitchurch}}" '''Edward Whitchurch''' (Pseudonym: Robert Stoughton;<ref>{{cite book |id={{ProQuest|2248507609}} |last1=Vermigli |first1=Pietro Martire |date=1550 |title=A discourse or traictise of Petur Martyr Vermilla Flore[n]tine, the publyque reader of diuinitee in the Vniuersitee of Oxford wherein he openly declared his whole and determinate iudgemente concernynge the sacrament of the Lordes supper in the sayde Vniuersitee }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562 {{!}} The Online Books Page |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Vermigli,%20Pietro%20Martire,%201499-1562 |access-date=2024-02-18 |website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}}</ref> died 1561) was a London printer and publisher of Protestant works.
Whitchurch and Richard Grafton jointly published the first complete version of the Bible in English in 1539. Other published works included the 1547 ''{{lang|en-emodeng|A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, contayning the Sayinges of the Wyse}}'', by William Baldwin, and the ''Paraphrases of Erasmus'' in 1548.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jK2Xhf45dPkC&dq=edward+whitchurch&pg=PA116|title=Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI|last=Alford|first=Stephen|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|isbn=9781139431569|pages=122|via=Google Books}}</ref>
After Thomas Cromwell's fall and execution, Whitchurch and Grafton were sent to prison on 8 April 1543, but they were released on 3 May. On 28 January 1543-4, together Grafton and Whitchurch received an exclusive patent for printing church service books and on 28 May 1546 they were also granted an exclusive right to print primers in Latin and English.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Whitchurch,_Edward_(DNB00|title=Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900|last=Lee|first=Sidney|year=1900|chapter=Edward Whitchurch}}</ref>
In 1549, he employed five assistants.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6I4kIbdVnx4C&dq=edward+whitchurch&pg=PA59|title=A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers|last=Duff|first=E. Gordon|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2011|isbn=9781108026765|pages=169|via=Google books}}</ref>
Merton Abbey was closed by Henry VIII as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries<ref>[http://www.mertonpriory.org/history/consplan/complete.pdf "A Conversation and Management Plan for Merton Priory and Merton Abbey Mills], p. 7.</ref> and the estate sold. Edward Whitchurch and Lionel Dutchet purchased it, but left for Europe when Queen Mary came to the throne. The site then came into the ownership of the Garth family.<ref name="CofsL">[https://stlawrencechurch.co.uk/about-us/history/ "A Condensed History of Morden and St Lawrence"], Church of St Lawrence official website, accessed 17 April 2017.</ref>
After the accession of Mary, he left England, possibly to Germany, and later married Margaret, widow of Archbishop Cranmer in 1556.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Edward Whitchurch|last=Ryrie|first=Alec|date=3 January 2008|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/29233}}</ref>
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