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PETER GUNNING (1614-1684)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 723 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETER See also:GUNNING (1614-1684)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Hoo, in See also:Kent, and educated at the See also:King's School, See also:Canterbury, and See also:Clare See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he became a See also:fellow in 1633 . Having taken orders, he advocated the royalist cause from the See also:pulpit with much eloquence . In 1644 he retired to See also:Oxford, and held a chaplaincy at New College until the See also:city surrendered to the See also:parliamentary forces in 1646 . Subsequently he was See also:chaplain, first to the royalist See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Shirley of Eatington (1629-1656), and then at the See also:Exeter See also:House See also:chapel . After the Restoration in 166o he returned to Clare College as See also:master, and was appointed See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:professor of divinity . He also received the livings of Cottesmore, Rutlandshire, and Stoke Bruerne, See also:Northamptonshire . In 1661 he became See also:head of St See also:John's College, Cambridge, and was elected Regius professor of divinity . He was consecrated See also:bishop of See also:Chichester in 1669, and was translated to the see of See also:Ely in 1674-1695 . Holding moderate religious views, he deprecated alike the extremes represented by See also:Puritanism and See also:Roman Catholicism . His See also:works are chiefly reports of his disputations, such as that which appears in the Scisme Unmask't (See also:Paris, 1658), in which the See also:definition of a See also:schism is discussed with two Romanist opponents .

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