John Jeffery,

D.D. A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ra ...

(20 December 1647; 1 April 1720) was an

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priest and author. Jeffery was born in

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. He was educated at Ipswich School and

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. After a curacy at

Dennington Dennington is a village and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk. It is north of Framlingham and north-east of Ipswich in the east of the county. It lies along the A1120 road around west of the road's junction with the main A12 ro ...

he was the

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at St Peter Mancroft, Norwich. he also held

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at Kirton and

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. He was

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from 1694 until his death. He wrote * 'Religion the Perfection of Man', 1689. * 'Proposals to the reverend Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Norwich concerning the reformation of manners and promoting the interest of true religion and virtue', 1700 * 'Several Discourses', 1701–7 * 'The Religion of the Bible; or a Summary View of the Holy Scriptures, as the Records of True Religion', 1701 * 'Moral and Religious Aphorisms', 1703 * 'Select Discourses upon divers important subjects', 1710 *'Christian Morals', 1716 * 'The True Notion of Peace in the Kingdom or Church of Christ', 1717

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1647 births 1720 deaths Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Archdeacons of Norwich Writers from Ipswich People educated at Ipswich School Clergy from Ipswich {{England-Anglican-clergy-stub