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HENRY AIRAY (1560?-1616)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 443 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:AIRAY (1560?-1616)  , See also:English Puritan divine, was See also:born at Kentmere, See also:Westmorland, but no See also:record remains of the date of either See also:birth or See also:baptism . He was the son of See also:William See also:Airay, the favourite servant of See also:Bernard See also:Gilpin, " the apostle of the See also:North," whose See also:bounty showed itself in sending See also:Henry and his See also:brother Evan (or Ewan) to his own endowed school, where they were educated " in grammatical learning," and were in attendance at See also:Oxford when Gilpin died . From See also:Wood's Athenae we glean the details of Airay's See also:college attendance . " He was sent to St See also:Edmund's See also:hall in 1579, aged nineteen or thereabouts . Soon after he was translated to See also:Queen's College, where he became pauper Auer serviens; that is, a poor -serving See also:child that See also:waits on the See also:fellows in the See also:common hall at meals, and in their See also:chambers, and does other servile See also:work about the college." His transference to Queen's is perhaps explained by its having been Gilpin's college, and by his Westmorland origin giving him a claim on Eaglesfield's See also:foundation . He graduated B.A. on the 19th of See also:June 1583, M.A. on the 15th of June 1586, B.D. in 1594 and D.D. on the 17th of June 1600—all in Queen's College . " About the See also:time he was See also:master " (1586) " he entered See also:holy orders, and became a frequent and zealous preacher in the university." His Commentary on the See also:Epistle to the See also:Philippians (1618, reprinted 1864) is a specimen of his preach-. See also:ing before his college, and of his fiery denunciation of popery and his fearless enunciation of that Calvinism which Oxford in common with all See also:England then prized . In 1598 he was chosen See also:provost of his college, and in 1606 was See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university . In the See also:discharge of his vice-chancellor's duties he came into conflict with See also:Laud, who even thus See also:early was manifesting his antagonism to the prevailing See also:Puritanism . He was also See also:rector of Otmore (or Otmoor), near Oxford, a living which involved him in a trying but successful litigation, whereof later incumbents reaped the benefit . He died on the6th of See also:October 1616 . His See also:character as a See also:man, preacher, divine, and as an important ruler in the university, will be found portrayed in the Epistle by See also:John See also:Potter, prefixed to the Commentary .

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fine specimen of the more cultured Puritans —possessed of a robust common-sense in admirable contrast with some of his contemporaries .

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