Edmund Boldero (1608–1679) was an English royalist clergyman and academic, Master of

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from 1663.

Life

He was a native of

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. He was educated at

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and

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, where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1626, graduated B.A. in 1629 and M.A. in 1632, and was admitted to a fellowship on 4 February 1631, and took the degree of M.A. He became curate of St. Lawrence, Ipswich, in 1643. Soon after the establishment of the Commonwealth he was ejected from his fellowship and sent a prisoner to London, where he was detained for a long time. He was subsequently in Scotland under the

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. On the

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he was created D.D. at Cambridge by royal mandate.

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, to whom he was chaplain, presented him to the rectory of

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, Suffolk, on 15 February 1662, and also to the rectories of

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and

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in the same county. Wren then nominated him master of Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on 26 April 1663, and presented him to the rectory of

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, on 13 July in the same year. Boldero was vice-chancellor of the university in 1668, when in November he forbade the use of the arguments of Descartes in disputations, and also suspended Daniel Scargill for

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in disputation;''Remains, historical & literary, connected with the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester'' (1844-86), vol. 114, p. 286. and in 1674. He died at Cambridge on 5 July 1679, and was buried in Jesus College chapel.

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Biography on Jesus College site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boldero, Edmund 1608 births 1679 deaths 17th-century English Anglican priests Masters of Jesus College, Cambridge Cavaliers Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge Clergy from Bury St Edmunds Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge