William Juxon, an English prelate, born in Chichester in 1582, died June 4, 1663. He was educated at the merchant taylors' school, and at St. John's college, Oxford. Originally destined for the law, he studied theology, and became vicar of St. Giles's, Oxford, in 1609, and rector of Somerton in 1614. He was president of his college in 1621, and vice chancellor in 1626 and 1627. He became successively dean of Worcester and prebendary of Chichester, bishop of Hereford, and in the same year, 1633, bishop of London. In 1635 he was appointed lord high treasurer, but in 1640 earnestly solicited leave to resign the office, and returned to the charge of his diocese. He was attached to the king, whom he attended in the isle of Wight, at his trial, and to the last upon the scaffold. After the king's execution he was deprived of his bishopric, and imprisoned for refusing to disclose his last conversation with the king. After the restoration he was made archbishop of Canterbury (1660).