Ralph Brownrigg

The Right Reverend Ralph Brownrigg
Bishop of Exeter

Diocese	Diocese of Exeter
In office	1642–1646
Predecessor	Joseph Hall
Successor	John Gauden
Orders
Consecration	15 May 1642 by John Williams
Personal details
Born	c. 1592
Died	(1659-12-07)7 December 1659
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Alma mater	Pembroke Hall, Cambridge

Ralph Brownrigg or Brownrig (1592–1659) was bishop of Exeter from 1642 to 1646. He spent that time largely in exile from his see, which he perhaps never visited.^[1] He did find a position there for Seth Ward.^[2] He was both a Royalist in politics, and a Calvinist in religion,^[3] an unusual combination of the period. Brownrigg opposed Laudianism in Cambridge during the 1630s and at the Short Parliament Convocation of 1640. Nominated to the Westminster Assembly,^[4] he apparently took no part in it.

Life

He studied at Ipswich and Pembroke Hall, Cambridge.^[5] He was awarded an M.A. in 1614 and a D.D. in 1626.^[6] He was Rector of St Margaret of Antioch, Barley, Hertfordshire, in 1621.^[7]

He was Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge,^[8] and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, but in 1646 was ejected from both these positions, by the Parliamentary government.^[9] He was also deprived of his See by Parliament on 9 October 1646, as episcopacy was abolished for the duration of the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.^[10]^[11]

He took refuge with Thomas Rich, lord of the manor of Sonning.^[12]

Works

He continued to preach, for example at the Temple Church,^[3] and a collection of sermons of his was published posthumously.^[13]

Notes

^ Ralph Brownrigg
^ The Galileo Project
^ ^a ^b ...a conforming Puritan in close theological agreement with the now dominant faction, [1].
^ History of the Westminster Assembly of Divines
^ "Brownrigg, Ralph (BRWG607R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
^ St Margaret of Antioch, Barley « United Benefice of Barkway, Buckland and Reed with Barley
^ From 1631 Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
^ PDF Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, p. 159.
^ Plant, David (2002). "Episcopalians". BCW Project. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
^ King, Peter (July 1968). "The Episcopate during the Civil Wars, 1642–1649". The English Historical Review. 83 (328). Oxford University Press: 523–537. doi:10.1093/ehr/lxxxiii.cccxxviii.523. JSTOR 564164.
^ Parishes - Sonning with Earley, Woodley and Sandford | British History Online
^ "andreweslehmberg". Archived from the original on 27 October 2009. Retrieved 19 July 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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Preceded by Richard Sibbes	Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge 1635–1645	Succeeded by William Spurstow
Church of England titles
Preceded by Joseph Hall	Bishop of Exeter 1642–1646	Succeeded by John Gauden (at Restoration)

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Early modern	John Arundel Hugh Oldham John Vesey Myles Coverdale John Vesey James Turberville William Alley William Bradbridge John Woolton Gervase Babington William Cotton Valentine Cary Joseph Hall Ralph Brownrigg Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) John Gauden Seth Ward Anthony Sparrow Thomas Lamplugh Sir Jonathan Trelawney Bt Ofspring Blackall Lancelot Blackburne Stephen Weston Nicholas Clagett George Lavington Frederick Keppel John Ross William Buller Reginald Courtenay
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