Samuel Bolton

Samuel Bolton

Samuel Bolton
Born 1606 (1606)
London
Died 15 October 1654 (1654-10-16) (aged 48)
Occupation English clergyman and scholar

Samuel Bolton (1606 – 15 October 1654) was an English clergyman and scholar, a member of the Westminster Assembly and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Life

Samuel Bolton was the son of William Bolton, of Lancashire.[1] He was born in London in 1606, and educated at Christ's College, Cambridge.[2] In 1643 he was chosen one of the Westminster assembly of divines. He was successively minister of St. Martin's, Ludgate Street, of St. Saviour's, Southwark, and of St. Andrew's, Holborn.[3]

He was appointed, on the death of Thomas Bainbrigg in 1646, master of Christ's College, Cambridge, and served as Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in 1651. He has been identified with the Samuel Bolton who, in 1649, attended Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland on the scaffold.[4] He died, after a long illness, on 15 October 1654. Edmund Calamy preached his funeral sermon.[3]

Bolton's publication called, The Sinfulness of Sin, was originally delivered as a sermon to the House of Commons of England on a solemn day of humiliation on March 25, 1646.

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Works

His books include:

Family

He has been incorrectly identified both as a son and a brother of Robert Bolton (1572–1631);[3] Robert Bolton's son Samuel was a clergyman who died in 1668.[6]

Notes

  1. "Bolton, Samuel (BLTN625S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. John Le Neve, Fasti, ed. Hardy, iii. 690, 607.
  3. 1 2 3 4  "Bolton, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  4. Whitelocke, Mem. p. 387.
  5. Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom (Edinburgh, Banner of Truth Trust, reprint, 1964)
  6.  "Bolton, Robert (1572–1631)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Thomas Bainbrigg
Master of Christ's College, Cambridge
1646–1654
Succeeded by
Ralph Cudworth
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