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DANIEL BURGESS (1645-1713)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 814 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL See also:BURGESS (1645-1713)  , See also:English Presbyterian divine, was See also:born at See also:Staines, in See also:Middlesex, where his See also:father was See also:minister . He was educated under See also:Busby at See also:Westminster school, and in 166o was sent to Magdalen See also:Hall, See also:Oxford, but not being able conscientiously to subscribe the necessary formulae he quitted the university without taking his degree . In 1667, after taking orders, he was appointed by See also:Roger See also:Boyle, first See also:Lord See also:Orrery, to the headmastership of a school recently established by that nobleman at See also:Charleville . Co . See also:Cork, and soon after he became private See also:chaplain to See also:Lady Mervin, near See also:Dublin . There he was ordained by the See also:local See also:presbytery, and on returning to See also:England was imprisoned for See also:preaching at See also:Marlborough . He soon regained his See also:liberty, and went to See also:London, where he speedily gathered a large and influential See also:congregation, as much by the somewhat excessive fervour of his piety as by the vivacious illustrations which he frequently employed in his sermons . He was a See also:master of See also:epigram, and theologically inclined to Calvinism . The See also:Sacheverell See also:mob gutted his See also:chapel in 1710, but the See also:government repaired the See also:building . Besides preaching, he gave instruction to private pupils, of whom the most distinguished was See also:Henry St See also:John, afterwards Lord See also:Bolingbroke . His son, See also:Daniel See also:Burgess (d . 1747), was secretary to the princess of See also:Wales, and in 1723 obtained a See also:regium donum or government See also:grant of £500 See also:half-yearly for dissenting ministers .

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