Anthony Burges

For the 20th-century English fiction writer, see Anthony Burgess.

Anthony Burges or Burgess (died 1664) was a Nonconformist English clergyman, a prolific preacher and writer.

Life

He was a son of a schoolmaster at Watford, and not related to Cornelius Burgess or John Burges, his predecessor at Sutton Coldfield. He studied at St. John's College, Cambridge from 1623.[1] He became a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[2] At Emmanuel he was tutor to John Wallis[3][4]

From 1635 he was Rector at Sutton Coldfield; during the First English Civil War, he took refuge in Coventry, and lectured the parliamentary garrison. He was a member of the Westminster Assembly. He lost his position as Rector in 1662, after the Restoration, despite John Hacket's urging to conform, and then and lived at Tamworth.[4][5]

Works

He published various separate sermons, including a funeral sermon on Thomas Blake, and:

Two volumes of his major work on justification appeared, followed by works of the 1650s on grace and original sin.[6]

Notes

  1. "Burgess, Anthony (BRGS623A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. Concise Dictionary of National Biography, under "Anthony Burgess".
  3. Christopher Hill, Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution (1965), p. 108.
  4. 1 2 3 s:Burgess, Anthony (DNB00)
  5. History of Sutton Coldfield A to D
  6. http://www.rtrc.net/westminster/critical/booktable.htm

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Burgess, Anthony". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. 

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