JOHN

See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• JOHN SHARP (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

SHARP (1645-1714)  , English divine, archbishop of York, was born at Bradford on the 16th of February 1645, and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge . He was ordained deacon and priest on August 12th 1667, and until 1676 was chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir Heneage Finch at Kensington House . Meanwhile he became archdeacon of Berk-shire (1673), prebendary of Norwich, rector of St Giles's-in-the-Fields, and in 1681 dean of Norwich . In 1686, when chaplain to James II., he was suspended for ten months on a charge of having made some reflections on the king, and in 1688 was cited for refusing to read the declaration of indulgence . Under William and Mary he succeeded Tillotson as dean of Canterbury in 1689, and (after declining a choice of sees vacated by non-jurors who were his personal friends) followed Thomas Lamplugh as archbishop of York in 1691 . He made a thorough investigation of the affairs of his see, and regulated the disordered chapter of Southwell . He preached at the coronation of Queen Anne and became her almoner and confidential adviser in matters of church and state . He welcomed the Armenian bishops who came to England in 17137. and corresponded with the Prussian court on the possibility of the Anglican liturgy as a means of reconciliation between Lutherans and Calvinists . He died at Bath on the and of February 1714 . His works (chiefly sermons) were published in 7 volumes in 1754, and in 5 volumes at Oxford in 1829 .