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See also:MATHER, See also:RICHARD (1596-1668) , See also:American Congregational clergyman, was See also:born in Lowton, in the See also:parish of Winwick, near See also:Liverpool, See also:England, of a See also:family which was in reduced circumstances but entitled to See also:bear a coat-of-arms. He studied at Winwick See also:grammar school, of which he was appointed a See also:master in his fifteenth See also:year, and See also:left it in 1612 to become master of a newly established school at Toxteth See also:Park, Liverpool. After a few months at Brasenose See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, he began in See also:November 1618 to preach at Toxteth, and was ordained there, possibly only as See also:deacon, See also:early in 1619. In See also:August–November 1633 he was suspended for See also:nonconformity in matters of ceremony; and in 1634 was again suspended by the visitors of Richard See also:Neile, See also:archbishop of See also:York, who, See also:hearing that he had never worn a See also:surplice during the fifteen years of his See also:ministry, refused to reinstate him and said that " it had been better for him that he had gotten Seven Bastards." He had a See also:great reputation as a preacher in and about Liverpool; but, advised by letters of See also:John See also:Cotton and See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- HOOKER, JOSEPH (1814–1879)
- HOOKER, RICHARD (1553-1600)
- HOOKER, SIR JOSEPH DALTON (1817— English botanist and traveller, second son of the famous botanist Sir W.J.Hooker, was born on the 3oth of June 1817, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He was educated at Glasgow University, and almost immediately after taking his M.
- HOOKER, SIR WILLIAM JACKSON (1785–1865)
- HOOKER, THOMAS (1586–1647)
Hooker, and persuaded by his
2 Mather was made a licenser of the See also:Press in 1674 when the See also:General See also:Court abolished the See also:monopoly of the See also:Cambridge Press.
own elaborate formal " Arguments tending to prove the Removing from Old-England to New . . . to be not only lawful, but also necessary for them that are not otherwise tyed, but See also:free," he left England and on the 17th of August 1635, and landed in See also:Boston after an " extraordinary and miraculous deliverance " from a terrible See also:storm. As a famous preacher " he was desired at Plimouth, See also:Dorchester, and See also:Roxbury." He went to Dorchester, where the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church had been greatly depleted by migrations to See also:Windsor, See also:Connecticut; and where, after a delay of several months, in August 1636 there was constituted by the consent of magistrates and See also:clergy a church of which he was " teacher " until his See also:death in Dorchester on the 22nd of See also:April 1669.
He was an able preacher, " aiming," said his biographer, " to shoot his arrows not over his See also:people's heads, but into their See also:Hearts and Consciences "; and he was a See also:leader of New England See also:Congregationalism, whose policy he defended and described in the See also:tract Church See also:Government and Church See also:Covenant Discussed, in an See also:Answer of the Elders of the Severall Churches of New England to Two and See also:Thirty Questions (written 1639; printed 1643), and in his Reply to Mr See also:Rutherford (1647), a polemic against the See also:Presbyterianism to which the See also:English Congregationalists were then tending. He drafted the Cambridge See also:Platform, an ecclesiastical constitution in seventeen chapters, adopted (with the omission of Mather's See also:paragraph favouring the " See also:Half-way Covenant," of which he strongly approved) by the general See also:synod in August 1646. In 1657 he drafted the See also:declaration of the Ministerial See also:Convention on the meaning and force of the Half-way Covenant; this was published in 1659 under the See also:title: A Disputation concerning Church Members and their See also:Children in Answer to XXI. Questions. With Thomas Welde and John See also:Eliot he wrote the " See also:Bay See also:Psalm See also:Book," or, more accurately, The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English See also:Metre (164o), probably the first book printed in the English colonies.
He married in 1624 Katherine Hoult or See also:Holt (d. 1655), and secondly in 1656 Sarah Hankredge (d. 1676), the widow of John Cotton. Of six sons, all by his first wife, four were ministers: See also:SAMUEL (1626-1671), the first See also:fellow of Harvard College who was a See also:graduate, See also:chaplain of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1650-1653, and pastor (1656-1671, excepting suspension in 1660-1662) of St See also:Nicholas's in See also:Dublin; NATHANIEL (1630-1697), who graduated at Harvard in 1647, was See also:vicar of See also:Barnstaple, See also:Devon, in 1656-1662, pastor of the English Church in See also:Rotterdam, his See also:brother's successor in Dublin in 1671-1688, and then until his death pastor of a church in See also:London; ELEAZAR (1637-1669), who graduated at Harvard in 1656 and after See also:preaching in See also:Northampton, See also:Massachusetts, for three years, became in 1661 pastor of the church there; and INCREASE MATHER (q.v.). See also:Horace E. Mather, in his Lineage of Richard Mather (See also:Hartford, Connecticut, 1890), gives a See also:list of 8o clergymen descended from Richard Mather, of whom 29 See also:bore the name Mather and 51 other names, the more famous being See also:Storrs and Schauffier.
See The See also:Life and Death of That See also:Reverend See also:Man of See also:God, Mr Richard Mather (Cambridge, 167o; reprinted 185o, with his See also:Journal for 1635, by the Dorchester Antiquarian and See also:Historical Society), with an introduction by Increase Mather, who may have been the author; W. B. Sprague's See also:Annals of the American See also:Pulpit, vol. i. (New York, 1857) ; Cotton Mather's See also:Magnolia (London, 1702) ; an See also:essay on Richard Mather in Williston See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
Walker's Ten New England Leaders (New York, 1901); and the See also:works referred to in the See also:article on Increase Mather._ (R.
End of Article: MATHER, RICHARD (1596-1668)
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