Thomas sprat biography

&#;SPRAT, THOMAS (–), bishop of Rochester and dean of Westminster, born in at Beaminster in Dorset, as he states &#;in his ‘Sermon before the Natives of Dorset, 8 Dec.

’ (p. 38), was son of Thomas Sprat, minister of that parish, who is said to have married a daughter of Mr. Strode of Parnham. The father was in sequestrator of the parish of St. Alphege, Greenwich (Drake, Blackheath, p.

Thomas sprat biography wikipedia

99), and in was in charge of the parish of Talaton in Devonshire.

After receiving the rudiments of education ‘at a little school by the churchyard side,’ Sprat matriculated from Wadham College, Oxford, on 12 Nov. , and on 25 Sept.

was elected a scholar. He graduated B.A. 25 June , M.A. 11 June , and B.D. and D.D. 3 July In he was incorporated at Cambridge. From 30 June to 24 March (when he resigned) he held a fellowship at Wadham, and on 6 Dec. he was elected catechist.

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