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Samuel Fisher (other)
Samuel Fisher may refer to: * Samuel Fisher (Quaker) (1605–1665), English Quaker controversialist * Samuel Fisher (died 1681) (c. 1605–1681), English ejected minister * Samuel Fisher (clergyman) (1777–1857), American clergyman and educator * Samuel Rhoads Fisher Samuel Rhoads Fisher was the secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas. He was born in Pennsylvania on December 31, 1794, and settled in Texas in 1830 with his wife and four children in the Matagorda area. He represented Matagorda Municipalit ... (1794–1839), secretary of the Navy of the Republic of Texas * Samuel Rowland Fisher (1745–1834), Philadelphia merchant in Revolutionary times * Samuel Fisher, Baron Fisher of Camden (1905–1979), British businessman and Jewish leader * Samuel H. Fisher (1867–1957), American attorney and print historian See also * Samuel von Fischer (1859–1934), Hungarian-born German publisher * Sam Fisher (other) {{hndis, Fisher, Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Fisher (died 1681)
Samuel Fisher (c.1605–buried 5 September 1681) was an English Puritan clergyman and writer, who was committed to a Presbyterian polity. After serving as a rural rector (ecclesiastical), rector in Shropshire during the period of Charles I of England, Charles I's Thorough, absolute monarchy, he worked in London and Shrewsbury during the English Civil War and under the Commonwealth of England, Commonwealth and in Cheshire during the Protectorate. After the Great Ejection of 1662 he settled in Birmingham, where he worked as a Nonconformist (Protestantism), nonconformist preacher. The precise course of his career is a matter of some controversy. Identity This article concerns a Presbyterian minister who served at Shrewsbury approximately between 1645 and 1650 and afterwards at Thornton-le-Moors in Cheshire, retiring to Birmingham after his ejection. There were several Puritan clergy named Samuel Fisher and their lives seem to have become confused in some of the sources. The namesak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
