The Right Reverend Ralph Brownrigg | |
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Bishop of Exeter | |
Diocese | Diocese of Exeter |
In office | 1642–1646 |
Predecessor | Joseph Hall |
Successor | John Gauden |
Orders | |
Consecration | 15 May 1642 by John Williams |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 1592 |
Died | (1659-12-07)7 December 1659 |
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Anglican |
Alma mater | Pembroke Hall, Cambridge |
Ralph Brownrigg or Brownrig (1592–1659) was bishop of Exeter from 1642 to 1646. He spent that time largely in exile from his see, which he perhaps never visited. He did find a position there for Seth Ward. He was both a Royalist in politics, and a Calvinist in religion, an unusual combination of the period. Brownrigg opposed Laudianism in Cambridge during the 1630s and at the Short Parliament Convocation of 1640. Nominated to the Westminster Assembly, 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. He was Rector of St Margaret of Antioch, Barley, Hertfordshire, in 1621.
He was Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but in 1646 was ejected from both these positions, by the Parliamentary government. He was also deprived of his See by Parliament on 9 October 1646, as episcopacy was abolished for the duration of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.
He took refuge with Thomas Rich, lord of the manor of Sonning.
Works
He continued to preach, for example at the Temple Church, and a collection of sermons of his was published posthumously.
Notes
- Ralph Brownrigg
- The Galileo Project
- ^ ...a conforming Puritan in close theological agreement with the now dominant faction, .
- History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
- "Brownrigg, Ralph (BRWG607R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- St Margaret of Antioch, Barley « United Benefice of Barkway, Buckland and Reed with Barley
- From 1631 Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
- PDF Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, p. 159.
- Plant, David (2002). "Episcopalians". BCW Project. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- King, Peter (July 1968). "The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642–1649". The English Historical Review. 83 (328). Oxford University Press: 523–537. doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523. JSTOR 564164.
- Parishes - Sonning with Earley, Woodley and Sandford | British History Online
- "andreweslehmberg". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2007.
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Academic offices | ||
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Preceded byRichard Sibbes | Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge 1635–1645 |
Succeeded byWilliam Spurstow |
Church of England titles | ||
Preceded byJoseph Hall | Bishop of Exeter 1642–1646 |
Succeeded byJohn Gauden (at Restoration) |