John Berridge

BERRIDGE, John. b. Kingston, Nottinghamshire, 1 March 1716; d. Everton, Bedfordshire, 22 January 1793. He was educated at Clare Hall, Cambridge (BA 1738, MA 1732). He took Holy Orders, and was a Fellow of Clare (now Clare College). He was curate of Stapleford, near Cambridge (1749-55), and then vicar of Everton, near Potton, Bedfordshire, from 1755 until his death. He was chaplain to the Earl of Buchan. He was associated with Methodists of both kinds (Calvinist and Arminian), and was friendly with George Whitefield* and John Wesley*: like them, he engaged in field preaching, and spent much time on an itinerant ministry through Bedfordshire and the nearby counties. In JJ, p. 138, the...

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