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Deans Of Peterborough
The Dean of Peterborough is the head of the chapter at Peterborough Cathedral. On the Dissolution of Peterborough Abbey in 1539 and the abbey-church's refoundation as a cathedral for the new bishop and diocese of Peterborough, care for the abbey/cathedral church passed from an abbot to a dean. The current Dean of Peterborough is Chris Dalliston List of deans Early modern *1541–1542 Francis Leycester :(last prior of St Andrew's Priory, Northampton) *1543–1549 Gerard Carleton *1549–1557 James Curthoppe *1557–1559 John Boxall (deprived) *1560–1583 William Latymer *1583–1589 Richard Fletcher *1590–1597 Thomas Nevile *1597–1607 John Palmer *1607–1612 Richard Clayton *1612–1617 George Meriton *1617–1622 Henry Beaumont (later dean of Windsor) *1622–1630 William Piers *1630–1639 John Towers *1639–1640 Thomas Jackson *1640–1660 John Cosin *1661–1664 Edward Rainbowe *1664–1679 James Duport *1679–1689 Simon Patrick *1689–1691 Richard K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Palmer (priest)
John Palmer (died June 1607) was an English clergyman and academic who was Master of Magdalene from 1597 to 1604, but died in a debtors' prison. Palmer was of Kent. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge in Autumn 1567. He was awarded BA in 1572 and became a Fellow in 1573. He was awarded MA in 1675. In 1580 he was incorporated at Oxford University. He was Proctor of his college from 1587 to 1588. He was awarded DD in 1595. From 1595 to 1604 he was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was Dean of Peterborough from 1597 to 1607 and Prebendary of Lichfield Lichfield () is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated roughly south-east of the county town of Stafford, south-east of Rugeley, north-east of Walsall, north-west of Tamworth and south-west o ... from 1605 to 1607. Palmer was imprisoned for debt, and died in prison in June 1607. Palmer made a clandestine marriage to Katherine Knevit, daughter of William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Freeman (priest)
Samuel Freeman (10 June 1664 – 14 October 1707) was dean of Peterborough from 1691 until his death. Freeman graduated from Clare College, Cambridge in 1665. He held incumbencies at St. Peter, Stantonbury, St. Peter and St. Paul, Olney, Buckinghamshire, St Anne and St Agnes in the City of London, and St Paul, Covent Garden. He was also a prebendary A prebendary is a member of the Roman Catholic or Anglican clergy, a form of canon with a role in the administration of a cathedral or collegiate church. When attending services, prebendaries sit in particular seats, usually at the back of th ... of St Paul's Cathedral. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD). References Deans of Peterborough 17th-century English Anglican priests 18th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge 1707 deaths 1644 births {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Kidder
Richard Kidder (1633–1703) was an English Anglican churchman, Bishop of Bath and Wells, from 1691 to his death. He was a noted theologian. Biography He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was a sizar, from 1649, graduating 1652. He became a Fellow there in 1655, and vicar of Stanground, Huntingdonshire, in 1659. He was deprived in 1662. He was rector of Rayne Parva, Essex, from 1664 to 1674, having conformed to the Act of 1662. He was later vicar of St. Martin Outwich, London, and in 1689 a royal chaplain, and dean of Peterborough. His ''A Demonstration of the Messias'' has been identified as a significant influence on the librettist Charles Jennens, in writing the words for the Messiah of Handel. This book also took up suggestions of Joseph Mede on multiple authorship of the ''Book of Zechariah''. He was killed in the Great Storm of 1703 The great storm of 1703 was a destructive extratropical cyclone that struck central and southern England on 26 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Patrick
Simon Patrick (8 September 1626 – 31 May 1707) was an English theologian and bishop. Life He was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, eldest son of Henry Patrick, a wealthy merchant, on 8 September 1626, and attended Boston Grammar School. He entered Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1644, and after taking orders in 1651 became successively chaplain to Sir Walter St. John and vicar of Battersea, Surrey. He was afterwards (1662) preferred to the rectory of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, London, where he continued to labor during the plague. He was appointed Dean of Peterborough in 1679, and Bishop of Chichester in 1689, in which year he was employed, along with others of the new bishops, to settle the affairs of the Church in Ireland. In 1691 he was translated to the see of Ely, which he held until his death on 31 May 1707. He was buried in Ely Cathedral. His memorial is by Edward Stanton. He had Dalham Hall built. Works His sermons and devotional writings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Duport
James Duport (; 1606, Cambridge17 July 1679, Peterborough) was an English classical scholar. Life His father, John Duport, who was descended from an old Norman family (the Du Ports of Caen, who settled in Leicestershire during the reign of Henry IV), was master of Jesus College, Cambridge. The son was educated at Westminster School and at Trinity College, where he became fellow and subsequently vicemaster. In 1639 he was appointed Regius Professor of Greek, in 1641 Archdeacon of Stow, in 1664 Dean of Peterborough, and in 1668 Master of Magdalene College. Works Through the Civil War, in spite of the loss of his clerical offices and eventually of his professorship, Duport continued his lectures. He is best known by his ''Homeri gnomologia'' (1660), a collection of all the aphorisms, maxims, and remarkable opinions in the ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'', illustrated by quotations from the Bible and classical literature. His other published works chiefly consist of translations (from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Rainbowe
Edward Rainbowe or Rainbow (1608–1684) was an English academic, Church of England clergyman and a noted preacher. He was Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Bishop of Carlisle. Life He was born on 20 April 1608 at Blyton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire, where his father Thomas Rainbowe was vicar. His mother, Rebecca, daughter of David Allen, rector of the neighbouring parish of Ludborough, was educated in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Edward's godfather, Edward Wray of Rycot, was second son of Sir Edward Wray of Glentworth in Lincolnshire. The Wrays possessed influence, and the connection proved important to the young Rainbowe. After spending a short time at Queen Elizabeth's High School, Gainsborough, he was sent in April 1620 to Peterborough, to be under Dr John Williams, then one of the prebendaries, and an old friend of his father. When, in the following year, Williams was preferred to the deanery of Westminster and b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cosin
John Cosin (30 November 1594 – 15 January 1672) was an English churchman. Life He was born at Norwich, and was educated at Norwich School and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he was scholar and afterwards fellow. On taking orders he was appointed secretary to John Overall, Bishop of Lichfield, and then domestic chaplain to Richard Neile, Bishop of Durham. In December 1624 he was made a prebendary of Durham, and on 9 September 1625 Archdeacon of the East Riding of Yorkshire (until 1660). In 1630 he received his degree of Doctor of Divinity (DD). He first became known as an author in 1627, when he published his ''Collection of Private Devotions'', a manual stated to have been prepared by command of King Charles I, for the use of Queen Henrietta Maria's maids of honour. This book, together with his insistence on points of ritual in his cathedral church and his friendship with William Laud, exposed Cosin to the hostility of the Puritans; and the book was criticised by Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jackson (theologian)
Thomas Jackson (1579 – 1640) was an English theologian, and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Originally a Calvinist, he became in later life an Arminian. Life He was born at Witton-le-Wear, County Durham, and educated at the University of Oxford, where he attended Queen’s College from 1595. He became a probationer fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1606, and was soon afterwards elected vice-president there. In 1623 James Thomas Jackson was presented to the living of St Nicholas, Newcastle, and about 1625 to the living of Winston, County Durham. In 1631 he was appointed President of Corpus; and in 1632 Charles I presented him to the living of Witney, Oxfordshire. He was made a prebendary of Winchester in 1635, and was Dean of Peterborough from 1635 to 1639. Works His chief work was a series of commentaries on the Apostles' Creed, the first complete edition being entitled ''The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D.'' (London, 1673), edited by Barnabas Oley. The commen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Towers (bishop)
John Towers (died 1649) was an English churchman, Bishop of Peterborough from 1639, a royalist and a supporter of the ecclesiastical policies of William Laud. Life John was born in Norfolk, son of Thomas Towers, a wealthy fishmonger of Yarmouth (d.1589), and his wife Margaret. He matriculated as a sizar of King's College, Cambridge around 1595, entered Queens' College, Cambridge as a scholar in 1598, graduating Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1602 and Cambridge Master of Arts (MA Cantab) in 1606. On 15 March 1607-8 he was elected a fellow, and on 9 July 1611 he was incorporated at Oxford. He graduated Bachelor of Divinity (BD) in 1615, and obtained that of Doctor of Divinity (DD) '' per regias literas'' on 13 December 1624. Previously he was appointed chaplain to William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton, and by him was presented to the rectory of Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, on 11 April 1617. On 11 October 1623 he was instituted rector of Yardley-Hastings in the same county, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Piers (bishop)
William Piers (Pierse, Pierce; –1670) was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1621 to 1624, Bishop of Peterborough from 1630 to 1632 and Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1632 until the abolition of episcopacy in 1646, then again from the Restoration in 1660 to his death in 1670. Life The son of William Piers or Pierse, was born at South Hinksey Oxford, and baptised in the parish church of All Saints 3 September 1580; his father was John Piers, Archbishop of York. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford 17 August 1599, and became student the same year. He graduated B.A. in 1600, M.A. in 1603, B.D. 1610, D.D. 1614. He became chaplain to John King, and in 1609 he was presented by James I to the rectory of Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, which he resigned in 1611 on his collation by Bishop King as Archdeacon of Northolt, which he held till 1632. He was heavily influenced by John King, a bishop of London, who himself had been the chaplain to Archbishop Piers, when appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Windsor
The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as ''primus inter pares''. The post of Dean of Wolverhampton was assimilated to the deanery of Windsor, around 1480, until 1846. M. W. Greenslade, R. B. Pugh (editors), (1970): Victoria County History: A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 3, no. 44, Colleges: Wolverhampton, St Peter. List of deans Late medieval *1348 *1349[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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