or BARON, PETER, professor of divinity in the university of Cambridge, in the 16th century, was born at Ettampes in France, and educated in the university of Bourges, where he was admitted a licentiate in the law: but being of the Protestant religion, he was obliged to leave his native country to avoid persecution; and withdrawing into England, was kindly entertained by Lord Burleigh. He afterwards settled at Cambridge; and by the recommendation of his noble patron, was, in 1574, chosen Lady Margaret's professor there. For some years he quietly enjoyed his professorship; but there was at last raised a restless faction against him, by his opposing the doctrine of absolute predestination; which rendered his place so uneasy to him, that he chose to leave the university, and to settle in London. He wrote, 1. In Jonam Prophetum Praelectiones xxxix. 2. De Praefantia et Dignitate Divinae Legis; and other pieces. He died in London, about the year 1600.