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Portrait of Sir Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop #1239259

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Portrait of  Sir Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop  #1239259
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Portrait of Sir Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, 1635 - 1699 by Mary Beale 1632-1697</em></td>
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Edward Stillingfleet (1635 - 1699) was a British theologian. He was born in Cranborne, Dorset, and educated at Cambridge. He entered the Church, and held many preferments, including a Royal Chaplaincy, the Deanery of St Paul's (1678), and the Bishopric of Worcester (1689). He was a frequent speaker in the House of Lords, and had considerable influence as a Churchman. A keen controversialist, he wrote many treatises, including The Irenicum (advocating compromise with the Presbyterians), Antiquities of the British Churches, and The Unreasonableness of Separation. Stillingfleet was a good and honest man and had the respect of his strongest opponents. Stillingfleet was a scholarly man and at his death left a library of some 10,000 books, which was purchased by Narcissus Marsh and is today housed in Marsh?s Library in Dublin, Ireland. Stillingfleet, Edward 1635-1699, bishop of Worcester, born on 17 April 1635 at Cranborne, Dorset, was the seventh son of Samuel Stillingfleet (of the ancient family of Stillingfleet of Stillingfleet, Yorkshire) by Susanna, daughter of Edward Norris of Petworth. After early instruction from his parents he was sent to Cranborne grammar school, under Thomas Garden, and in 1648 to Ringwood, that he might procure one of the Lynne exhibitions. At Michaelmas 1649 he was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, and obtained a scholarship there on the Earl of Salisbury's nomination on 8 Nov. Immediately after graduating B.A. he was elected to a fellowship on ...
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#: 2944</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:17th Century</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Mary Beale 1632-1697</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:30</td></tr>

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<tr><td>Title:Portrait of Sir Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop </td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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