
Simon Patrick (8 September 1626 – 31 May 1707) was an
English theologian and bishop.
Life
He was born at
Gainsborough,
Lincolnshire, eldest son of
Henry Patrick, a wealthy merchant, on 8 September 1626, and attended
Boston Grammar School
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. He entered
Queens' College, Cambridge
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, in 1644, and after taking orders in 1651 became successively
chaplain
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to
Sir Walter St. John and
vicar of Battersea,
Surrey
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. He was afterwards (1662) preferred to the
rectory
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of
St. Paul's,
Covent Garden
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,
London, where he continued to labor during
the plague
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.
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
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of
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, which he held until his death on 31 May 1707. He was buried in
Ely Cathedral
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.
His memorial is by
Edward Stanton.
He had
Dalham Hall built.
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'', along with works of
Richard Arnald,
Moses Lowman,
William Lowth, and
Daniel Whitby.
Patrick's ''Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Nonconformist'' was a controversial tract, defending the
Five Mile Act.
It excited considerable feeling at the time of its publication in 1668. Among replies was one from
Samuel Rolle as Philagathus. 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.
He is the author of the anti-semitic pamphlet,
Jewish Hypocrisie, A Caveat To The Present Generation."
Theology
Simon Patrick, was influenced by prominent Arminian theologians as
Henry Hammond, and the
Cambridge Platonists; and was criticized for his
Arminian
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belief. He is described by historians as an influential
Arminian
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Anglican
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.
Marriage
In 1675 he married Penelope Jephson (died 1725), a daughter of Maj. Gen.
William Jephson (1609-1658), a highly
influential
Member of Parliament for Stockbridge, and also a substantial landowner in
Mallow, County Cork, by his wife Alicia Dynham,
[Jephson, Maurice Denham ''An Anglo-Irish Miscellany, some Records of the Jephsons of Mallow'' Dublin Allen Figgis 1964] a daughter of Sir John Dynham of
Boarstall Tower
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,
Buckinghamshire
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and Penelope Wenman. They had three children, two of whom died young.
[The printed autobiography of Simon Patrick calls his wife a "grandchild to the lady Durham (sic) of Borstall". The Auto-Biography of Simon Patrick, Bishop of El]
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Notes and references
Citations
Sources
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Attribution
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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.
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1626 births
1707 deaths
17th-century Church of England bishops
18th-century Church of England bishops
Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge
Arminian ministers
Arminian theologians
Bishops of Chichester
Bishops of Ely
Canons of Westminster
Deans of Peterborough
English theologians
People educated at Boston Grammar School
People from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
17th-century Anglican theologians
18th-century Anglican theologians