John Patrick

PATRICK, John. b. Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, 1632 (baptized 19 April); d. London, 19 December 1695. He was educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge (BA 1651, MA 1654). After the Restoration he was curate of Battersea, London (1662-71), and Preacher to the Charterhouse (1671-95). He owed both of these posts to the patronage of his elder brother Simon (or Symon, 1626-1707), who later became Dean of Peterborough, briefly Bishop of Chichester (1690-91), and then Bishop of Ely. During the stormy religious conflicts of the 1670s and 1680s, John Patrick was a controversialist in the Protestant cause, publishing Reflexions upon the Devotions of the Roman Church (1674) and The Religion of Protestants...