John Neushom

John Neushom was a 13th century clerk and a teacher of boys (doctor puerorum, schoolmaster) in Oxford, England.

On 7 December 1301 his dead body was pulled from the River Cherwell. The inquest found that he had fallen from a willow tree into the river by the Petty Pont (now Magdalen Bridge), where he drowned. After lunch on the previous day, he had climbed the tree to cut switches which he needed in his profession to chastise his students.