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See also: English See also: bishop, was See also: born at Northampton, and educated at Wadham See also: College, See also: Oxford
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His Presbyterian views caused him to move to Trinity College, where, however, the influence of the See also: senior See also: fellow induced him to join the See also: Church of
See also: England, and he was ordained in 1664
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In 1665 he published an essay entitled Tentamina physicotheologica de Deo, dedicated to Archbishop Sheldon, who in 1667 appointed him one of his chaplains
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He became rector of Chartha.m, Kent, in the same See also: year
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In 167o he became archdeacon of See also: Canterbury, and two years after he was appointed rector of Ickham, Kent
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In 1673 he was elected master of See also: Eden-See also: bridge Hospital
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His Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie (See also: London, 1670), advocating See also: state regulation of religious affairs, led him into controversy with Andrew Marvell (1621-1675)
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See also: James II. appointed him to the bishopric of Oxford in 1686, and he in turn forwarded the
See also: king's policy, especially by defending the royal right to appoint
See also: Roman Catholics to office
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In 1687 the ecclesiastical commission forcibly installed him as president of Magdalen College, Oxford, the See also: fellows having refused to elect any of the king's nominees
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He was commonly regarded as a Roman Catholic, but he would appear to have been no more than an extreme exponent of the High Church See also: doctrine of passive obedience
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After he became president the See also: action of the king in replacing the expelled fellows with Roman Catholics agitated him to such a degree as to hasten his end; to the priests sent to persuade him on his See also: death-See also: bed to be received into the' Roman Church he declared that he " never had been and never would be of that See also: religion," and he died in the communion of the Church of England
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See also: Parker's second son, See also: SAMUEL PARKER (1681-1730), was the author of Bibliotheca biblica, or Patristic Commentary on the Scriptures (1720-1735), an abridged See also: translation of See also: Eusebius, and other See also: works
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He was also responsible during 1708 and 1709 for a monthly periodical entitled Censura temporum, or See also: Good and See also: Ill Tendencies of Books
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He passed most of his See also: life in retirement at Oxford
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His younger son See also: Richard founded the well-known See also: publishing See also: firm in Oxford
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See Magdalen College and James II
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1686-1688, by the Rev
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Bloxam (Oxford See also: Historical Society, 1886)
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