'''John Hullier''' or '''Hulliarde''', '''Huller''' or '''Hullyer''', ({{Circa|1520}} – 16 April 1556) was an English clergyman and a Protestant martyr under Mary I of England.
Hullier was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge<ref>{{cite book|title=King's College Chapel 1515-2015|chapter=XII:Chapel and Choir, Liturgy and Music, 1444-1644|page=266|year=2014|publisher=Harvey Miller Publishers|author=Roger Bowers |editor=Jean Michel Massing |editor2=Nicolette Zeeman |ISBN=9781909400214}}</ref> before attending Eton College and then returning to King's College, Cambridge as an undergraduate.<ref>[https://archive.today/20130628034501/http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-130418.pl?sur=huller&suro=w&fir=john&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 Venn, J.; Venn, J. A., eds. (1922–1958). Alumni Cantabrigienses (10 vols) (online ed.). Cambridge University Press]</ref> Hullier became vicar of the Church of St Peter in Babraham, Cambridgeshire in 1549 until he was deprived in February 1556.<ref>{{CCEd |type=location |id=853 |name=Parish (church): Babraham |accessed=28 October 2024 }}</ref> He is remembered in a memorial plaque installed in the church.<ref name="SPC">{{cite web |title=History of St Peter’s Church, Babraham |url=https://www.stpetersbabraham.org.uk/history/ |website=St Peter’s Church, Babraham |access-date=18 August 2025}}</ref>
For his preaching in King's Lynn Hullier was taken to Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely, who sent him to Cambridge. Hullier was examined on Palm Sunday eve 28 March before a body of divines and lawyers headed by Nicholas Shaxton, at Great St Mary's, Cambridge.<ref name="exclassics.com">[http://www.exclassics.com/foxe/foxe340.htm Foxe's Book of Martyrs: 337: John Hullier]. Exclassics.com. Retrieved on 2013-05-19.</ref>
On Maundy Thursday, 16 April 1556 Hullier was burned at the stake on Jesus Green, Cambridge for refusing to renounce the Protestant faith.<ref name="exclassics.com"/><ref name="Farr">Thomas Bryce, "The Regester" in Edward Farr, ed., [http://www.bartleby.com/261/101.html ''Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth'']. 1845.</ref><ref name=babraham>{{cite web|url=http://babraham-village.net/history.html|title=Babraham village - history|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604120701/http://babraham-village.net/history.html|archivedate=2011-06-04}}</ref>
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