English Puritan divine (d. 1640)
Laurence Chaderton
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Laurence Chaderton
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Born
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Died
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Occupation
| English bible translator
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Laurence Chaderton
(
c
. September 1536 ? 13 November 1640) was an English
Puritan
divine
, the first Master of
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
and one of the translators of the
King James Version of the Bible
.
Life
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Chaderton was born in
Lees
,
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or else
Chadderton
,
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both near
Oldham
,
Lancashire
, England, probably during September 1536, a son of Thomas Chaderton, a
Catholic
.
[4]
His birth preceded the institution of
parish baptism registers
in England in 1538.
Under the tuition of
Laurence Vaux
, a Roman Catholic priest, he became an able scholar. In 1564, he entered
Christ's College, Cambridge
, where, after a short time, he formally adopted the Reformed doctrines and was in consequence disinherited by his father. In 1567, he was elected a fellow of his college; subsequently, he was chosen lecturer of
St Clement's Church, Cambridge
, where he preached to admiring audiences for many years. He married Cecily Culverwell, which entailed giving up his fellowship.
[5]
He was a man of moderate, puritan views, though numbering among his friends some of the greatest Puritan preachers and divines like
Thomas Cartwright
,
Richard Greenham
,
Richard Rogers
, and
William Perkins
. So great was his reputation that when Sir
Walter Mildmay
,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
to
Elizabeth I
, founded
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
in 1584, he chose Chaderton for the first master, and on his expressing some reluctance, declared that if he would not accept the office the foundation should not go on.
In 1604, Chaderton was appointed one of the four divines for managing the cause of the Puritans at the
Hampton Court Conference
. He was also among the translators of the
King James Version
of the Bible. In 1578, he had taken the degree of
B.D.
, and in 1613, he was created
D.D.
At this period he made provision for twelve fellows and above forty scholars in Emmanuel College. Fearing that he might have a successor who held
Arminian
doctrines, he resigned the mastership in favour of
John Preston
in 1622, but survived him, and lived also to see the college presided over successively by
William Sancroft
and
Richard Holdsworth
. He died at the age of about 104, preserving his bodily and mental faculties to the end.
Works
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Chaderton published a sermon preached at
St Paul's Cross
about 1580, and a treatise of his
On Justification
was printed by
Anthony Thysius
, professor of divinity at
Leiden
. Some other works by him on theological subjects remain in manuscript (as of 1911).
References
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Bibliography
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- Lewis, Samuel (1848).
A Topographical Dictionary of England
. Institute of Historical Research.
ISBN
978-0-8063-1508-9
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- Beeke, Joel R (2016).
Laurence Chaderton: His Life and Ecclesiology
. in Puritan Reformed Journal Vol 8 No 1.
- Shuckburgh, Evelyn (1884).
Laurence Chaderton, First Master of Emmanuel
. translated from the Latin of Dr William Dillingham 1700.
ISBN
110413814X
.
- Chaderton, Laurence (1578).
An excellent and godly sermon most needefull for this time, wherein we liue in all securitie and sinne, to the great dishonour of God, and contempt of his holy word. Preached at Paules Crosse the xxvi. daye of October, an. 1578 by Laurence Chaderton Batcheler of Diuinitie
. Christopher Barker, printer to the Queenes Maiestie.
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