RICHARD

See also:

• STERNE, LAURENCE (1713-1768)
• RICHARD STERNE (c. 15gb-1683)

STERNE (c. 15gb-1683)  , English divine, arch-bishop of York, was born at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and was educe ted at the free-school in that town and at Trinity College, Cambridge . He was elected fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1620; in 1633 he became chaplain to Archbishop Laud and in 1634 master of Jesus College, Cambridge, and rector of Yelverton, Somerset . For his zeal in helping the royalist cause with college plate he suffered imprisonment at the order of parliament and lost his appointments . He attended Laud at his execution, and during the Commonwealth kept a school at Stevenage, Hertfordshire . At the Restoration he was rein-stated as master of Jesus College and soon after was made bishop of Carlisle . With George Griffith, bishop of St Asaph, and Brian Walton, bishop of Chester, he was appointed by Convocation to revise the Prayer Book . In 1664 he was raised to the arch-bishopric of York . He had impoverished Carlisle, and in his new see, according to Burnet (who calls him " a sour ill-tempered man "), " minded chiefly the enriching of his family." For his regard to the duke of York's interests he was suspected of leaning towards Roman Catholicism . He died on the loth of June 1683 . He helped Brian Walton with the Polyglot Bible and wrote a book on logic, Summa logicae (London, 1685) . He has also been credited with The Whole Duty of Man, which must, however, be assigned to the royalist divine Richard Allestree (1619-1681), provost of Eton College, whose original was consider-ably altered by his literary executor, John Fell (1625-1686), bishop of Oxford .