Simon Patrick
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Simon Patrick | |
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| Bishop of Ely | |
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| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Ely |
| In office | 1691–1707 |
| Predecessor | Francis Turner |
| Successor | John Moore |
| Other postTemplate:Pluralize from text | Dean of Peterborough (1679–1689) Bishop of Chichester (1689–1691) |
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| Buried | Ely Cathedral |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | Henry Patrick (father) |
| Spouse | Penelope Jephson |
| Children | Simon |
| Education | Boston Grammar School |
| Alma mater | Queens' College, Cambridge |
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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,[1] 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 labour during the plague.
Over the same period he served as a fellow of Queens' College where 1662 junior fellows proposed him for the position of college president. He accepted the nomination and was a challenger to Anthony Sparrow, a more senior fellow who was supported by other senior fellows. The election became embroiled in controversy around the academic freedom of the college to elect its president, when during the election proceedings on 6 May, a royal mandamus was delivered stating that the King had appointed Sparrow. This was contrary to the college statutes which required the fellows elect the president. Sparrow accepted the appointment. Patrick objected, leading to a controversy that continued for two years. King Charles appointed a Commission to investigate the matter, but Patrick alleged that his supporters were not given proper opportunity to present arguments in his favour. He challenged the proceedings of the commission in court, but after two years of litigation the judges remained evenly divided on the matter and Patrick dropped the case.[2]
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.[3] His memorial is by Edward Stanton.[4]
He had Dalham Hall built.
Works
His sermons and devotional writings are numerous, and his Commentary on the Historical and Poetical Books of the Old Testament, in 10 vols., going as far as the Song of Solomon, was reprinted in the 1810 Critical Commentary on the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha, along with works of Richard Arnald, Moses Lowman, William Lowth, and Daniel Whitby.[3]
Patrick's Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Nonconformist was a controversial tract, defending the Five Mile Act.[3] It excited considerable feeling at the time of its publication in 1668. Among replies was one from Samuel Rolle as Philagathus.[5] He also contributed to a volume of Poems upon Divine and Moral Subjects (1719).
The first collected edition of his works appeared at Oxford in 1858 (9 vols.), edited by Alexander Taylor; a small Autobiography was published also at Oxford in 1839.[3]
He is the author of the anti-semitic pamphlet, "Jewish Hypocrisie, A Caveat To The Present Generation."
Theology
Simon Patrick was influenced by prominent Arminian theologians such as Henry Hammond and the Cambridge Platonists, and was criticized for his Arminian belief.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. He is described by historians as an influential Arminian Anglican.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Marriage
In 1675 he married Penelope Jephson (died 1725), a daughter of Maj. Gen. William Jephson (1609–1658), a highly influential Member of Parliament for Stockbridge, and also a substantial landowner in Mallow, County Cork, by his wife Alicia Dynham,[6] a daughter of Sir John Dynham of Boarstall Tower, Buckinghamshire and Penelope Wenman. They had three children, two of whom died young.[7]
Notes and references
Citations
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Simon Patrick (PTRK644S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Grey J.H. 1899, University of Cambridge College Histories: Queen's College of St. Margaret and St. Bernard in the University of Cambridge, pp. 200-207
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- ^ Jephson, Maurice Denham An Anglo-Irish Miscellany, some Records of the Jephsons of Mallow Dublin Allen Figgis 1964
- ^ The printed autobiography of Simon Patrick calls his wife a "grandchild to the lady Durham (sic) of Borstall". The Auto-Biography of Simon Patrick, Bishop of Ely [1]
Sources
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Coffey, John (2006). John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution : Religion and Intellectual Change in Seventeenth-Century England. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Feingold, Mordechai (1990). Before Newton: The Life and Times of Isaac Barrow. Cambridge: Cambridge university press.
Attribution
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External links
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- Rt Rev Simon Patrick
- Facsimile of Simon Patrick's preface to Hugo Grotius' Truths of Christian Religion. Scanned by Elms College Alumnae Library.
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