Ralph Brownrigg

Ralph Brownrigg

Ralph Brownrigg or Brownrig (1592–1659) was bishop of Exeter from 1642 to 1659. He spent that time largely in exile from his see, which he perhaps never visited [ [http://anglicanhistory.org/caroline/brownrigg/index.html Ralph Brownrigg ] ] . He did find a position there for Seth Ward [ [http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/ward.html The Galileo Project ] ] . He was both a Royalist in politics, and a Calvinist in religion"...a conforming Puritan in close theological agreement with the now dominant faction", [http://anglicanhistory.org/england/lacey/thorn/01.html] .] , an unusual combination of the period. Nominated to the Westminster Assembly [ [http://www.reformed.org/books/hetherington/west_assembly/index.html?mainframe=/books/hetherington/west_assembly/chapter_2.html History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines ] ] , he apparently took no part in it.

Life

He studied at Ipswich, and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. He was awarded an M.A. in 1614 and a D.D. in 1626. ["Concise Dictionary of National Biography"] He was Rector of St Margaret of Antioch, Barley, in Hertfordshire, in 1621 [ [http://unitedbenefice.wordpress.com/churches/st-margaret-of-antioch-barley/ St Margaret of Antioch, Barley « United Benefice of Barkway, Buckland and Reed with Barley ] ] .

He was Master of St Catherine's College, Cambridge [From 1631. [http://www.ligonier.org/publishing_solideogloria_meetpuritans.php?puritan_id=24] ] , and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but in 1646 was ejected from both these positions, by the Parliamentary government. [ [http://www.middleton-hall.co.uk/history/puritanray.pdf PDF] , p. 159.] .

He took refuge with Thomas Rich, lord of the manor of Sonning [ [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=43208 Parishes - Sonning with Earley, Woodley and Sandford | British History Online ] ] .

Works

He continued to preach, for example at the Temple Churchd] , and a collection of sermons of his was published posthumously. [ [http://www.geocities.com/katacheson/andreweslehmberg.html andreweslehmberg ] ]

Notes

External links

* [http://www.dsnell.zynet.co.uk/Oliver/40.html Biography]
* [http://anglicanhistory.org/caroline/brownrigg/coronation.html Sermon from 1644]


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