BAINBRIDGE, JOHN (1582-1643), English astronomer, was born at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire. He started as a physician and practised for some years. Sir Henry Savile ap pointed him in 1619 to the Savilian chair of astronomy just founded by him at Oxford ; Bainbridge was incorporated of Mer ton college and became in 1631 and 1635 respectively, junior and senior reader of Linacre's lectures. He wrote An Astronomical Description of the late Comet (1619) ; Canicularia (1648) ; and translated Proclus's De Sphaera, and Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus (1620). Several manuscript works by him exist in the library of Trinity college, Dublin.
See Munk's College of Physicians, i. 175 Wood's Athenae (Bliss), iii. 67 ; Biographia Britannica, i. 419.