Everything about Richard Mather totally explained
Richard Mather (
1596 -
1669), was a
Puritan clergyman in Colonial
Boston,
Massachusetts. He was father to
Increase Mather and grandfather to
Cotton Mather, both also celebrated Boston
divines.
Biography
Mather was born in
Lowton, in the parish of
Winwick, near
Liverpool, England, of a family which was in reduced circumstances but entitled to bear a coat-of-arms.
He studied at Winwick
grammar school, of which he was appointed a master in his fifteenth year, and left it in 1612 to become master of a newly established school at
Toxteth Park, Liverpool. After a few months at
Brasenose College, Oxford, he began in November 1618 to preach at
Toxteth, and was ordained there, possibly only as
deacon, early in 1619.
In August-November 1633 he was suspended for
nonconformity in matters of ceremony; and in 1634 was again suspended by the visitors of
Richard Neile,
archbishop of York, who, hearing that he'd never worn a
surplice during the fifteen years of his ministry, refused to reinstate him and said that "it had been better for him that he'd gotten seven bastards."
He had a great reputation as a preacher in and about Liverpool; but, advised by letters of
John Cotton and
Thomas Hooker, he was persuaded to join the company of pilgrims in May 1635 and embarked at
Bristol for
New England. He arrived at
Boston on August 15, 1635, in the midst of one of the most catastrophic hurricanes of the colonial era. Pastor of
Dorchester until his death in 1669.
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