Simon Patrick

For the English translator, see Simon Patrick (translator).

Bishop Patrick.

Simon Patrick (1626–1707) was an English theologian and bishop.

Life

Memorial to Bishop Simon Patrick in Ely Cathedral

He was born at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 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 labor during the plague.

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 the 31st of May 1707. He was buried in Ely Cathedral.^[2]

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, with works Richard Arnald Moses Lowman William Lowth, and Daniel Whitby.^[2]

Patrick's Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Nonconformist was a controversial tract, defending the Five Mile Act.^[2] It excited considerable feeling at the time of its publication in 1668. Among replies was one from Samuel Rolle as Philagathus.^[3] 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.^[2]

Notes

↑ "Simon Patrick (PTRK644S)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
1 2 3 4 Wikisource:Patrick, Simon (1626-1707) (DNB00)
↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Rolle, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Patrick, Simon". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

Rt Rev Simon Patrick
Facsimile of Simon Patrick's preface to Hugo Grotius' Truths of Christian Religion. Scanned by Elms College Alumnae Library.

Church of England titles
Preceded by John Lake	Bishop of Chichester 1689–1691	Succeeded by Robert Grove
Preceded by Francis Turner	Bishop of Ely 1691–1707	Succeeded by John Moore

Deans of Peterborough

Early modern	Francis Alree/Abree/Leycester Gerard Carleton James Curthoppe John Boxall William Latymer Richard Fletcher Thomas Nevile John Palmer Richard Clayton George Meriton Henry Beaumont William Piers John Towers Thomas Jackson John Cosin Edward Rainbowe James Duport Simon Patrick Richard Kidder Samuel Freeman White Kennett Richard Reynolds Edward Gee John Mandeville Francis Lockier John Thomas Robert Lamb Charles Tarrant Charles Manners-Sutton Peter Peckard

Late modern	Thomas Kipling James Monk Thomas Turton George Butler Augustus Saunders John Perowne Marsham Argles William Ingram William Barlow Arnold Page James Simpson Noel Christopherson Dick Wingfield-Digby Randolph Wise Michael Bunker Charles Taylor

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 61575527 ISNI: 0000 0001 0907 1196 SUDOC: 159725313 BNF: cb121018691 (data)

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