John Terry (c.1555–1625) was a Church of England clergyman and anti-Catholic controversialist.

Educated at New College, Oxford, he was elected a fellow of the college until taking the living of Stockton, Wiltshire in 1590. The Triall of Truth attacked Roman Catholicism.

Works The Triall of Truth, 1600 The second part of the trial of truth, 1602 The reasonablenesse of wise and holy truth, 1617 Theologicall Logicke: or the third part of the Tryall of truth, 1625

References Stephen Wright, ‘Terry, John (c.1555–1625)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 20 Dec 2007