Zephaniah Marryat (1684–1754) was an English
Nonconformist minister. He was a strict
Calvinist
Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. In the modern day, it is largely represented by the Continental Reformed Protestantism, Continenta ...
.
Career
Marryat was a tutor at
dissenting academies
The dissenting academies were schools, colleges and seminaries (often institutions with aspects of all three) run by English Dissenters, that is, Protestants who did not conform to the Church of England. They formed a significant part of educatio ...
funded by the
King's Head Society. Between 1743 and 1744 he was a tutor at Stepney Academy;
he then taught at Plaisterer's Hall Academy.
At Plaisterer's Hall, he was the educator of
Robert Robinson and
Thomas Williams.
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley (; 24 March 1733 – 6 February 1804) was an English chemist, Unitarian, Natural philosophy, natural philosopher, English Separatist, separatist theologian, Linguist, grammarian, multi-subject educator and Classical libera ...
was also sent to him, but Priestley 'resolutely opposed' the condition of subscribing every six months to 'ten printed articles of the strictest Calvinistic faith.'
After Zephaniah Marryat suddenly died,
John Conder
John Conder D.D. (3 June 1714 – 30 May 1781) was an Independent minister at Cambridge who later became President of the Independent College, Homerton in the parish of Hackney (parish), Hackney near London. John Conder was the theological tuto ...
filled his place as theological tutor in this academy,
while
Samuel Pike succeeded him as one of the Tuesday lecturers at Pinners' Hall.
Personal life
He was the father of
Thomas Marryat.
References
Further reading
Marryat, Zephaniah, D.D. in the ''
''
1684 births
1754 deaths
Dissenting academy tutors
18th-century English Presbyterian ministers
{{England-reli-bio-stub