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SPRAT, THOMAS ( 1635-1713)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 736 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPRAT, THOMAS ( 1635-1713) , English divine, was born at Beaminster, Dorsetshire, and educated at Wadham College,
Oxford
 , where he held a fellowship (1657-1670). Having taken orders he became a prebendary of Lincoln in 166o. In the pre-ceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord
Protector
  (London, 1659), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters. His
chief
 
prose
  works are the Observations upon Monsieur de Sorbier's Voyage into England (London, 1665), a satirical reply to the strictures on Englishmen in Samuel de Sorbiere's book of that name, and a History of the Royal Society of London (London, 1667), which Sprat had helped to found. In 1669 he became canon of Westminster, and in 1670
rector
  of Uffington, Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to Charles II. in 1676,
curate
  and lecturer at St Margaret's, Westminster, in 1679, canon of Windsor in 1681, dean of Westminster in 1683 and
bishop
  of Rochester in 1684. He was a member of James II.'s ecclesiastical commission, and in 1688 he read the Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster Abbey. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant, he assisted at the
coronation
  of William and Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed Wren's restoration of the abbey. He died on the loth of May 1713.


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