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PARKER, SAMUEL (164o-1688)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PARKER, See also:SAMUEL (164o-1688) , See also:English See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:Northampton, and educated at Wadham See also:College, See also:Oxford. His Presbyterian views caused him to move to Trinity College, where, however, the See also:influence of the See also:senior See also:fellow induced him to join the See also:Church of See also:England, and he was ordained in 1664. In 1665 he published an See also:essay entitled Tentamina physicotheologica de Deo, dedicated to See also:Archbishop See also:Sheldon, who in 1667 appointed him one of his chaplains. He became See also:rector of Chartha.m, See also:Kent, in the same See also:year. In 167o he became See also:archdeacon of See also:Canterbury, and two years after he was appointed rector of Ickham, Kent. In 1673 he was elected See also:master of See also:Eden-See also:bridge See also:Hospital. His Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie (See also:London, 1670), advocating See also:state regulation of religious affairs, led him into controversy with See also:Andrew Marvell (1621-1675). See also:James II. appointed him to the bishopric of Oxford in 1686, and he in turn forwarded the See also:king's policy, especially by defending the royal right to appoint See also:Roman Catholics to See also:office. In 1687 the ecclesiastical See also:commission forcibly installed him as See also:president of Magdalen College, Oxford, the See also:fellows having refused to elect any of the king's nominees. He was commonly regarded as a Roman See also:Catholic, but he would appear to have been no more than an extreme exponent of the High Church See also:doctrine of passive obedience. After he became president the See also:action of the king in replacing the expelled fellows with Roman Catholics agitated him to such a degree as to hasten his end; to the priests sent to persuade him on his See also:death-See also:bed to be received into the' Roman Church he declared that he " never had been and never would be of that See also:religion," and he died in the communion of the Church of England. Parker's second son, SAMUEL PARKER (1681-1730), was the author of Bibliotheca biblica, or Patristic Commentary on the Scriptures (1720-1735), an abridged See also:translation of See also:Eusebius, and other See also:works.

He was also responsible during 1708 and 1709 for a monthly periodical entitled Censura temporum, or See also:

Good and See also:Ill Tendencies of Books. He passed most of his See also:life in retirement at Oxford. His younger son See also:Richard founded the well-known See also:publishing See also:firm in Oxford. See Magdalen College and James II. 1686-1688, by the Rev. J. R. Bloxam (Oxford See also:Historical Society, 1886).

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