Benefield [Benfield], Sebastian (1568/9–1630), Church of England clergyman and divine, was born at Prestbury, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and went to school in Cheltenham. His long career at Oxford began when he was admitted scholar of Corpus Christi College on 30 August 1586, aged seventeen. He graduated BA in 1589 (25 June), became a probationer fellow on 16 April 1590, and proceeded MA in 1593 (3 April). Following ordination he was licensed to preach, becoming a well-known and frequent preacher; one of his earliest publications was a sermon at the university church (24 March 1610), commemorating the accession of ...
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Benefield [Benfield], Sebastian (1568/9–1630), Church of England clergyman and divine
John S. Macauley
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Broughton, Hugh (1549–1612), divine and Hebraist
G. Lloyd Jones
Broughton, Hugh (1549–1612), divine and Hebraist, was born in Oldbury, Shropshire, the son of Robert Broughton of Broughton, Shropshire. He referred to himself as of Welsh descent but nothing more certain is known. He received his early education from Bernard Gilpin, who prepared him for university and sent him to ...
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Hugh Broughton (1549–1612) by John Payne, 1620 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Casaubon, (Florence Estienne) Meric (1599–1671), scholar and divine
R. W. Serjeantson
Casaubon, (Florence Estienne) Meric (1599–1671), scholar and divine, was born on 14 August 1599 in Geneva, the tenth of the seventeen children of Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614), classical scholar and church historian, and his second wife, Florence (1568?–1636), daughter of Henri Estienne. Meric was the most scholarly of ...
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Freeman, John (c. 1560–1596), divine
Brett Usher
Freeman, John (c. 1560–1596), divine, is first recorded at Michaelmas 1575, when he matriculated sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge. Admitted scholar in 1580, he graduated BA in 1581, became a fellow in 1583, proceeded MA in 1584, and died at Trinity twelve years later. An inventory of his goods and a bond obligatory, resulting from a grant of letters of administration and signed by four kinsmen—...
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Hey, John (1734–1815), divine
A. M. C. Waterman
Hey, John (1734–1815), divine, was born on 12 July 1734 at Pudsey, near Leeds, the second (eldest surviving) son and third child of Richard Hey (1702–1766), drysalter, of Pudsey and his wife, Mary (1702–1768), daughter of Jacob Simpson of Leeds, a surgeon. He maintained a lifelong correspondence with his older sister ...
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Hoare, William Henry (1809–1888), divine
Gordon Goodwin
revised by M. C. Curthoys
Hoare, William Henry (1809–1888), divine, born at Penzance, Cornwall, on 31 October 1809, was the second son of William Henry Hoare (1776–1819), a banker, of Broomfield House, Battersea, Surrey, and his wife, Louisa Elizabeth (1784/5–1816), daughter of Sir Gerard Noel Noel, bt, of ...
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Nicholson, Samuel (fl. 1597?–1602), poet and divine
Elizabeth Goldring
Nicholson, Samuel (fl. 1597
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Pendleton, Frederick Henry Snow (1818–1888), divine
G. C. Boase
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Pendleton, Frederick Henry Snow (1818–1888), divine, born on 13 September 1818, was educated at the University of Ghent and at St Aidan's College, Birkenhead. After being ordained in the diocese of Winchester, he served as curate of St Martin's, Guernsey, from December 1849 to June 1851, and as senior curate of ...
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Woodward, Hezekiah (1591/2–1675), educationist and divine
M. Greengrass
Woodward, Hezekiah (1591/2–1675), educationist and divine, was born in Worcestershire, the youngest of nine children. Like most educational reformers, Woodward was critical of his own upbringing. According to the autobiographical details in his 'Of the child's portion' (1640), published in A Sons Patrimony and a Daughters Portion...
