Edward Stillingfleet (1660?–1708) was an English

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and clergyman.

Life

He was the eldest son of

Edward Stillingfleet Edward Stillingfleet (17 April 1635 – 27 March 1699) was a British Christian theologian and scholar. Considered an outstanding preacher as well as a strong polemical writer defending Anglicanism, Stillingfleet was known as "the beauty of holin ...

, bishop of Worcester, educated at St Paul's School. He was a Lady Margaret scholar of

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, matriculating 1678, graduating B.A. in 1682, M.A. in 1685, and M.D. in 1692. He was elected

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in 1688, and

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from 1689 to 1692.Richard Henry Popkin, Arie Johan Vanderjagt, eds, Scepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Brill, 1993), 103 online at https://books.google.com/books?id=D0XL3vwPX0kC&q=Edward+Stillingfleet++1660-1708.&pg=PA103 Subsequently, he practised as a doctor at King's Lynn, married against the bishop's wishes, got into debt, and further offended his father by his Jacobite opinions. When he was ordained, however, the bishop obtained for him the rectory of

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, which he exchanged in 1698 for the rectory of Wood Norton and Swanton,

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. The bishop died in 1699, leaving nothing to his son, and accordingly, on the death of the latter in 1708, his widow was in straitened circumstances. Besides

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the naturalist, she had three daughters, of whom the eldest, Elizabeth, afterwards married

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, and she herself afterwards married a Mr. Dunch.

References

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